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Spring fellow Trudy Lieberman, a writer of health policy for Consumer Reports and a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, will look at how the media contributes to waste and harm in health care. She will focus on how the media covered medical interventions like bone marrow transplants for breast cancer patients, and whether these interventions were effective...
...drawn to a display about rehabilitation, which consisted of four tableaux incorporating life-size mannequins. The first tableau showed two youngsters shooting up; they have long hair, faded jeans and T shirts bearing the legend "Bad to the Bone." The next showed one junkie in handcuffs and the second lying dead with a syringe sticking from his arm. Then we see the survivor in a hospital bed surrounded by caring medical staff. Finally we witness the junkie's glorious rebirth. He now has short hair and wears a crisp green longyi, or Burmese sarong, and a white waistcoat...
...course the delay may be of some help to Joseph Kabila, since it'll give him time to bone up on his French in order to be able to address the nation whose presidency he's about to assume. Having been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral...
...doubted that a tax cut could come fast enough to salve the current economic malaise (Greenspan pegged growth as currently "close to zero"), but allowed that if things got worse, the tax cut might well do "noticeable good," and it might as well be "sooner rather than later"(a bone for his new president). And like his friend O'Neill, Greenspan put fiscal discipline above all else, suggesting that the tax cut be "phased in," along with provisions for reducing it in the face of "any disappointments that may occur...
Both can be treated, but there is a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh as the diseases. Steroids, for example--a mainstay of lupus therapy--shut down the immune system and suppress inflammation, but they can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, obesity and even psychosis. Steroids are, in fact, among the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...