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...Creek Lake and a 350-acre golf course. With the Any Day Golf Package, get a nightly rate of $147, or book two nights and get a third night free (starting at $89) with the Spring Fling package. Both packages are available through May 22. 22300 State Park Road, Mt. Sterling, Ohio; 877-678-DEER...
...Whatever we can do, we do.” PIH was founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School Professors Paul Farmer and Jim Y. Kim, who was recently selected as president of Dartmouth, and three other individuals. The event began at noon at St. Paul Church on Mt. Auburn Street with a speech from HMS assistant professor Joia Mukherjee, medical director of PIH. The talk detailed Haiti’s historical struggles for freedom, first from slavery, and now from poverty. “Haiti still struggles for liberation, and PIH’s insistence on a better model...
...Panthera-Mt. Sinai collaboration is atypical, but not for long; it is the shape of things to come for conservation work around the world. Critics who accuse environmentalists like Rabinowitz of protecting animals at the expense of human well-being have got it wrong. Wildlife experts are aware that in a world of 6.7 billion people and counting, the only conservation efforts that have potential - and the only plans that will be truly sustainable - are those that benefit people as much as lions, tigers and bears. "Big cats won't survive unless people want to live with them," says Rabinowitz...
...Mt. Sinai, which has made global health a priority for its medical students, the Panthera project presents an opportunity to explore another consequence of the increasing proximity of animals and people: zoonotic diseases, which can pass back and forth between wildlife and human beings. Several major human diseases have originated in animals, including Ebola (which began among primates in Africa) and avian influenza (which started in wild and domestic birds in Southeast Asia, but has also infected big cats...
...another, the chance of pathogens jumping - and amplifying - between species will only increase. Sinai's researchers will be able to monitor the population in the Pantanal for zoonotic diseases, providing a needed early warning system for new and emerging pathogens. It will also be a valuable learning experience for Mt. Sinai's students. "We see a really close interface between the health of human populations and conservation efforts," says Paul Klotman, chairman of the department of medicine at Mt. Sinai. "This will allow us to do surveillance to look for potential pathogens that could be important for both wildlife...