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Ashe, the only Black person ever to win the Wimbledon and the U.S. Open tennis tournaments, was an active supporter of AIDS research. The tennis star announced last spring that he had contracted AIDS from a 1983 blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery...
...fundamental than the tax code or the insurance industry has to change. We'll simply have to alter our conceptions about the American health care system. The AMA spokesperson says that Americans "have certain expectations...When you're told that you've got to wait six months for coronary bypass surgery, you get upset." This extreme case paints in sharp relief the potential shortcomings of universal care...
Some of the cards in the catalog date as far back as Abraham Lincoln's presidency, and De Gennaro said that most patrons tend to bypass the yellowing records and go straight to HOLLIS...
...massive new infusion of troops will enable relief workers to reach areas previously untouched and to bypass the local militias, who "requisition" large chunks of the food intended for the starving. The New York Times reported Wednesday that up to 80 percent of the food passing through the capital of Mogadishu simply disappears. For the people of Somalia, these troops will be a godsend...
These factors often give cardiologists pause. Should they intervene aggressively when the risks are greater? Bypass surgery, for example, is twice as likely to cause death in women as in men. But "with the 40-year-old man," says Giardina, "there is no question. Gotta...