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...that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem is chronic diarrhea, a daily killer of 5,000 young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised to take Sohag to ICDDR's hospital. There, the baby received...
...Another quarter of those exposed to severe trauma will gradually recover to normal functioning over the next 18 months. The rest are split between chronic disruption - never able to act normal again - and those who have a delayed reaction; they can act normal for a while, but gradually lose it. Since we never know which individuals will fall into which pattern, we now recognize that it can actually be unhelpful to intervene too soon, pushing one style of healing on them...
...suspected that the toxic effect of mental stress was not limited to the cardiovascular system, we were surprised by how robust and definitive the data was.” According to Kubzansky, decline in lung function is an early marker for many other prognoses, such as heart disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder. Harvard Professor of Medicine Scott T. Weiss, a co-author on the study, said that “the longitudinal character of the study is significant, because it allowed us to observe changing lung function over time, whereas the previous studies of this sort conducted were cross...
...threaded into the main artery in his left thigh. Mathur hopes the $5.5 million, four-year study will help clarify whether stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow can repair a failing heart. There's much at stake in the outcome, and not just for the 300 chronic-heart-failure patients the trial will study or the two in 1,000 people who are diagnosed with the condition in developed countries every year and face a 37% risk of dying in the first year. The London trial is among the first large-scale efforts to determine whether stem...
...trend began two decades ago-though it has intensified in recent years. Abe's challenge is to combat inequality and provide a better "social safety net" while continuing with market reforms. Such reforms, and the sustained growth they will bring, will have the desired effect of reducing Japan's chronic budget deficit-which is a symptom, not a cause, of Japan's problems. The question everyone is asking is whether Shinzo Abe-who has never shown much interest in economics-has both the desire and the capability to continue reform. On this, too, the jury is still...