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...Crimson recently noted, HMS has announced the formation of a committee to update its conflict-of-interest policies. We believe that such an approach correctly focuses on system-wide issues and not on individual doctors. We look forward to working with this committee to bring our institutional policies in line with those of our peer institutions and with the recommendations of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
...Thanks to the country's lax debt laws, the judicial route for lenders to recover what's owed them is slow and tortuous, so many lenders are turning to a more direct approach to get their money back - tapping into the Spaniards' fear of public humiliation. As a result, companies offering costumed collectors who recoup debts simply by showing up at a home or office and embarrassing the debtor in question have proliferated in Spain. But their days may be numbered, now that a committee of the Spanish parliament has approved a proposal to regulate the industry, a first step...
...original START treaty opted for the former approach, setting absolute limits of 6,000 warheads and 1,600 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and bombers per side. But the most recent nuclear-arms-control agreement, the 2002 "Moscow Treaty," settled on the more nebulous measure of "operationally deployed warheads" (of which both sides are allowed 2,200). That way of counting, which the Russian government and some American arms-control advocates now oppose, measures only the number of nuclear weapons on the tips of long-range missiles or on bomber bases. Most long-range missiles are capable...
...Under the latest reforms, annual health care subsidies will increase from about $12 per person to $18. But while the coverage may approach universality throughout China's population, experts say that the country will still have to work on providing quality care. "There remains the challenge to improve access to high quality care," says Barber. "Once patients have access to health services, it is essential to ensure that the quality of health care is high and qualified staff are available...
...role model and has influence beyond South Africa's borders. That's not always been a good thing. Mbeki, who succeeded Mandela as President in 1999, tried to forge a middle way between revolution and democracy by calling on the ANC to embrace a "democratic revolution" in government. The approach proved schizophrenic. Mbeki the democrat adopted liberal economics, oversaw impressive growth and won plaudits as a consensus-building peace negotiator across Africa. Mbeki the revolutionary saw his country's AIDS epidemic as a Western conspiracy, a stance which cut treatment and cost 330,000 South African lives between...