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...pursue some of our own dreams, should struggle beside those who never really were given the chance to dream in the first place?What if, for example, we all spent at least a few years trying to do some good as a teacher or community organizer in an at-risk neighborhood instead of going off to the elite firm? What if, to take it to another level, we committed our lives to eliminating “at-risk neighborhoods” altogether, to changing the odds so poor kids don’t have to beat them? That would...
...good to treat,” while the others had undergone recent surgery or were on blood thinners. The drug tPA is not without its risks, however, Smith noted, citing a landmark study in 1995 which suggested a 6 percent risk in brain hemorrhaging for tPA patients. “Because tPA is a ‘clot-busting’ drug, the main complication is that it can cause bleeding for certain at-risk patients. Especially for these patients, doctors are more reluctant to use tPA immediately. They want to see if symptoms will get better on their...
...Hampshire and Illinois are the only states that require age-based road tests (for those 75 and older). Most states are wrestling with how to identify at-risk drivers scientifically without the difficulty and expense of testing everyone past a certain age. Maryland has been at the leading edge of research to determine the age at which large-scale screening of drivers makes sense. Preliminary results, says Dr. Robert Raleigh, chief of the Maryland Medical Advisory Board, indicate that 75 is the age at which screening at license renewal becomes most effective...
Indonesia is trying. With the help of WHO, Rotary and the other groups, 5 million at-risk kids will be vaccinated in the next few weeks. The immunization rate in Indonesia is already high--90% or more--but in places like Cidadap, it's less than 50%. "The challenge is to respond quickly and make sure we get vaccine to these low-coverage areas," says Robert Keegan, deputy director of the CDC's global immunization division...
...does not mean nonexistent, and the parents of a lot of at-risk kids are doing nothing to reduce the danger. Ninety-two percent of U.S. children ages 19 months to 35 months receive three or more doses of polio vaccine, but those numbers aren't distributed evenly. Up to 2.1 million children in that age group may be either undervaccinated or entirely unvaccinated each year. Many come from poor or uninsured families with no access to health care or health information. Others are on the opposite end of the demographic arc--well-educated and comparatively wealthy Americans...