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Rochester, Minn.’s very own Mayo Clinic accounced Monday that is has developed a super-fast test for anthrax. It only takes...
Wright, who is involved with the HIV clinic at Harvard Medical School and edits the Journal of the Harvard Health Caucus, received a standing ovation when she got her award...
Emergency is the outgrowth of one man's crusade against the kind of misery he first confronted while serving in Kabul with the Red Cross in 1991. Looking for a typical patient profile in the clinic admissions log, he discovered that it was not a young male combatant wounded in Afghanistan's civil war. Instead, typical meant civilian and female. Three years later--relying mostly on private donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children...
None of these Canadian virtues, however, excuse Laxer for the dud of a critique he has written about the U.S. He visits the Michigan Militia, Republican political rallies, an abortion clinic and the execution of Texas’s prettiest psychopath, Karla Faye Tucker. He is typically Canadian in his incredulity at the American right wing, particularly at its overt courtship of fundamentalist Christians. He mocks the diminutive Christian zealot Gary Bauer, who ran for president in 2000. Executions are rejected as illogical and bloodthirsty; the militia leader is simply psychotic. And he points out a few nonpolitical neuroses...
Suddenly, everyone in America wants a flu shot. Companies are throwing open their in-house clinic doors while highly visible public figures like New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urge everyone to rush out and get immunized. Getting a flu shot, the logic goes, means staying healthy during the looming flu season. Perhaps and, perhaps more important, it means warding off symptoms that might be confused with anthrax infection...