Word: clinically
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...many it appears that George Bush may finally have summoned just the right doctor. In addition to work in medical and research areas, Healy has had a lengthy career in science policy. She has served on several federal science-advisory committees and, most recently, as chief of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Research Institute. Most important, she knows intimately the problems confronting the NIH. "This is not only a job worth doing but also one that can be done," she says...
...sign that life is getting better. The hope persists, although the county has one of West Virginia's highest rates of infant mortality: 13.5 per 1,000 births, one-third above the national average. "It's always been a problem," says Franki Patton, director of Tug River Clinic's maternal and infant health program. "But I think the community has gotten used to it. They don't want to lose their babies, but they see it as a part of life...
...Several years after the clinic opened in 1976, the rate of infant deaths was 16.2 per 1,000 births; its efforts since then to provide better prenatal care and medical services have helped improve the odds that children will live to celebrate their first birthday. But the program barely survives on a mix of federal, state and foundation money, and the demand for services is overwhelming. The clinic's doctors and six outreach staff members currently treat 170 families, a number that could easily triple if the staff could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients...
Rachel and John are typical of the families the clinic serves. John worked part-time cutting firewood or driving a coal truck. The couple subsisted on food stamps, supplemented by the generosity of neighbors who often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched...
...Bush Administration decides to rob Peter to pay Paul for its infant- mortality program, the clinic could suffer decreased funding. Any cutback in the program's $130,000 annual budget could be disastrous. "We can't afford to lose what we have," says Patton. "To us, what could be more logical than saving babies? But when you put a price tag on it, it becomes something else. It becomes a political thing...