In Print Photos by Graham Ramsay Focus: How Media Violence Touches Children Kimberly Thompson (top) and Michael Rich co-organized an October symposium on media violence and its effect on children at the Harvard School of Public Health. The scientific consensus is that media violence is strongly associated with children's violent behavior. BBS Bulletin HMI World HSTconnector MD-PhD Newsletter MedEd News Mentations On The Brain

Headlines HMO Gatekeeping Does Not Appear to Cut Specialty Visits Allergic Rhinitis Costs Employers Billions a Year Upcoming The 26th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture: AIDS: Domestic and Global Considerations for the 21st Century Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Thursday, November 15 5:30 p.m.

Spotlight Anthrax and Biothreat Information This resource on biological threats has been created to share timely information with the Harvard medical community, the general public, and the media. New pages about relevant HMS research and other information will be added as they become available. Student Scene Photo by Graham Ramsay The New Counterterrorism: Strengthening Health Care and Public Health Experts in the U.S knew a lot about bioterrorism prior to the first outbreak in Florida. Erica Seiguer reviews some of their observations. One of these is that improving health care and public health systems is both a defense and a deterrent.

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