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Between 2003 and 2033, the researchers estimate, 83 million Chinese will die from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, which would constitute nearly a quarter of the nation’s deaths during this period...
...instead UPMC healed itself, devising a new health-care model that is more entrepreneurial: it is 60% health-care provider and research institution, 30% for-profit company that operates a health-care insurance subsidiary, and 10% commercial-services exporter running emergency rooms in the Middle East and transplant and cancer programs in Europe. It looks to companies such as Siemens and General Electric as role models, since both do basic research but have to develop profitable products. UPMC has formed a joint partnership with GE, called Omnyx, to develop an information-technology-based digital pathology business. Each company is investing...
...fluorescent proteins are now commonly used to study the growth and development of nerve cells damaged during Alzheimer’s, for example, or cancer cells...
...simple declarative sentence: "I believe that health care is a right for every American." The rest of his answer could be used as a template for how to deal with a complex issue in a town-hall debate. He began with a personal story: his mother, dying of cancer at age 53, having to fight her insurance company, trying to prove that her disease had not been a pre-existing condition. He broadened that into a general proposition about the proper role of government: "It is absolutely true that I think it is important for government to crack down...
...Obama's had another advantage in these debates, one that is difficult to quantify but very real: he simply seems more comfortable, and confident, than McCain. Part of this is, sadly, attributable to the physical awkwardness imposed by McCain's war wounds and his bouts with cancer - the restricted arm movements; the scarred, clenched jaw. But there is also a pent-up anger to McCain. He seems to be concentrating so hard on trying to stay calm that he doesn't have much energy left over to answer questions in a free and creative way. He is not the sort...