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...past two years, Ho has retreated from his vaccine agenda and set up the pilot drug-treatment program in Kunming. Using funding from both ADARC and private donors, he has also built a clinic, set up a virology lab capable of performing basic viral-load tests and put together a state-of-the-art immunology lab?all of which will eventually absorb the testing required for the future vaccine studies...
These days Mohammed Amin Radhy opens his pediatric clinic only three days a week, for three hours at a time. In the new Baghdad, it's a life-or-death journey just to travel the 3 1/2 miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs...
...operation Iraqi freedom group meets on Wednesdays at a Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Los Angeles. Veterans find their way to the 90-min. group-therapy sessions in a variety of ways, most of them slow and circuitous. "Often the parents call and say you've got to get them in," says clinical social worker Leslie Martin. "Some are married, and their wives make them come." Others are referred by VA doctors after a checkup detects signs of psychological distress...
...come to write The Stranger Beside Me? Ted Bundy had been my partner at the crisis clinic in Seattle, where we took calls from people in emotional turmoil. We worked together for about a year and a half. We were good together. We saved lives. Every Sunday and Tuesday night for a year, I was locked up alone with Ted Bundy and feeling perfectly safe. I was 34, and he was 23. I thought of him as a younger brother. He used to walk me to my car late at night and say, "Be sure you lock the doors...
...from frequent headaches are using over-the-counter pain relievers more than they should, according to a study presented at the American Headache Society's annual meeting last week. In a survey of nearly 700 children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who had been referred to the Cleveland Clinic because of chronic headaches, 22% were using pain relievers like Advil, Aleve and Tylenol as often as 15 to 20 times a week, and 1 in 7 was taking the medication without telling a parent. Experts caution that overuse of such drugs can lead to "rebound" headaches as well...