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...retired jobs counselor who studied government in college, Mimi Singer's medical credentials might as well have been issued by the Hold-the-Mayo Clinic. But when doctors couldn't explain why an older friend nearly passed out over lunch, it was Singer who advised the woman to drink water during and after meals to avoid a sudden drop in blood pressure. "My friend has drunk water with her food ever since," Singer says, "and she's fine...
...struggling right now, but I think we're about to turn a corner," says Martinez, chairman of the foundation, which still gets a trickle of contributions at 23 Main Street, Winters, Calif. 95694 WBDavis@Davis.com) "Dr. Davis and his wife Wendy [the currently unpaid executive director of the clinic] have put it on the line for us, and we have to all pitch in and fight for them...
...teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals...
...some surprisingly callous responses. Authorities in the Czech Republic, for example, have stamped foreign victims' passports with an "undesirable" mark and dumped the women at the border, according to a recent report from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In Moldova, even a doctor in the venereal disease clinic treating women who have returned to the country believes their troubles are in most cases self-inflicted. "A woman's sexual behavior is entirely her responsibility," declared Viorel Kalistru...
...could "fail" such an exam and still not notice a great difference in our daily life. In addition, this is a preliminary study that lacked a control or comparison group. "I think there's something to this," says Dr. Patrick McCarthy, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. But he is quick to add that it's not at all clear how much of the decline is due to the bypass and how much to aging...