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...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...Beijing has tried to keep health-care costs in check in rural localities by capping the price of many procedures. For example, pumping the stomach of someone attempting suicide by eating fertilizer?a practice not infrequent among women in farming villages?costs $1. But governmental price controls mean local clinics have to raise funding by other means. Most adopt the strategy seen in the village of Nanzhao in Hebei. There, the local clinic contains a wooden desk, several threadbare chairs and a bookshelf lined with antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. In most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed...
...does? Is the ailment fundamentally different in men and women? If not, why do their symptoms seem to differ? And why do treatments such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, which work so well for men, often fail for women? In some ways, says Dr. Sharonne Hayes of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "the findings have allowed us appropriately, and perhaps belatedly, to refocus our efforts...
...peacenik demonstrators, and only recently ended those programs under outside legal pressure. How long will it be before the FBI turns its eyes towards other groups unpopular with the incumbent administration? Under a future liberal president, could mainstream anti-abortion organizations find themselves investigated for ties to abortion clinic bombers...
...consciousness has been raised, it doesn’t translate into immediate action. Several people sign up to escort for an abortion clinic at the end of the meeting. But the group plans no demonstration, circulates no petitions, makes no plans to sabotage final clubs and burns no bras...