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...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...turns out you don’t have to stop looking at porn just because you’re worried that your girlfriend will find out from her UA lab partner that you’ve bookmarked PremiumBukkake.com. The User Assistants (UAs) in the Personal Computer Clinic at the Science Center might be exposed to some pretty sick stuff on frozen laptop screens, but you don’t need to worry about having your fascination with naughty nurses made known to the public. When asked if the computers brought into the clinic ever had dirty pictures frozen onscreen...
...month of nursing than she would ever need."I used to joke that I had enough breast milk to feed a continent," says Youse, 29. "I had a ton of it and I didn't know what to do." She and her husband Jeremy, a resident at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, knew the nutritional value of breast milk and Youse felt an emotional connection to it as well. She didn't want to dispose of it. So with her freezer filled to capacity, she went online to find uses for the extra milk. Breast millk can be kept frozen...
Still, there is reason for hope. The mortality rate for children with AIDS at Baylor's pediatric clinic in Botswana has fallen from nearly 5% in 2003 to 0.3% this year. Other groups are scaling up. More than 1,400 children are receiving antiretroviral therapy in Rwanda--up from 354 in 2004--and more than a third of pregnant women are getting treatment to preserve their lives and reduce the risk of delivering an HIV-positive infant, according to UNICEF. There will always be more to do, but at long last the work has begun...
...video from the Lesotho clinic and read more about U.S. doctors in the Pediatric AIDS Corps, visit time.com/aidskids...