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Another Silent Killer MOZAMBIQUE While George W. Bush promoted a $15 billion U.S. program to fight AIDS in Africa, scientists prepared to take a major step toward one of medicine's Holy Grails: a malaria vaccine. This week, at a clinic in the town of Saude Manhiça, north of the capital, Maputo, experts from an international public-private partnership will kick off a large-scale clinical trial - involving 2,000 children, ages 1 to 4 - to test a GlaxoSmithKline drug called RTS,S/ASO2A. It is the most advanced of the 80 malaria-vaccine candidates now in development...
When women arrived at their clinic complaining of angina (heart disease--related chest pain) while vacuuming, University of Nebraska researchers decided to examine the phenomenon. In a study of 36 healthy women ages 50 to 59, the scientists found that vacuuming was indeed a taxing task, but how much it stressed the heart depended on the model. The easiest to use: self-propelled upright cleaners, best for women with heart disease...
Crone said that other institutions, including the Mayo Clinic and possibly several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, will provide hands-on care in addition to HMI’s education and research divisions...
Intra-Christian recrimination also arose around the shocking death last November of Bonnie Witherall, 31, a nurse's assistant at the Christian and Missionary Alliance pre-natal clinic in Sidon, Lebanon, a facility funded partly by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse organization. One morning as she arrived to open the clinic, an unknown assailant shot her three times in the head. Her murder may have been simple anti-Americanism, since it followed one of Osama bin Laden's bellicose edicts. But the New York Times reported that members of the Alliance--which flew a banner emblazoned with the Arabic...
Martin Palmeri has changed his mind before. Until his fourth year of college, he was planning a career in investment banking. But one afternoon, while volunteering in a North Carolina medical clinic, Palmeri realized that he was much happier in the hospital than in economics class. Palmeri was drawn to obstetrics and gynecology, he says, for the "emotion and passion" involved in delivering babies. "It's tremendously rewarding...