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Fried was nominated by the University to receive the honor, and is a good candidate to be one of the finalists to be named on Thursday. Fried applied for and received a grant to run a hockey clinic in Quincy for underprivileged youth of Greater Boston last summer...
...restoration of Parma's theater and 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local soccer team, making it one of Europe's best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February, when the Catholic Church was looking for funds to renovate a mountain clinic for asthmatic children, Monsignor Franco Grisenti only needed to ask, and his old friend Tanzi, 65, immediately made an interest-free loan of €400,000. "He's got that impulse in him to just say yes," the prelate marvels. Not all of Tanzi's impulses may have been...
...past two years, Ho has retreated from his vaccine agenda and set up the pilot drug-treatment program in Kunming. Using funding from both ADARC and private donors, he has also built a clinic, set up a virology lab capable of performing basic viral-load tests and put together a state-of-the-art immunology lab--all of which will eventually absorb the testing required for the future vaccine studies...
...that physicians consider treating anyone with a fasting glucose of 100 mg/dL or higher, down from 110 mg/dL or higher in the previous guidelines. "If your fasting blood sugar is below 100, your chances of getting diabetes are quite low," says Dr. Robert Rizza, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a vice president of the American Diabetes Association. "But if your fasting glucose is over 100, you have a 10% to 15% chance of getting diabetes in the next seven years...
...cost of doing nothing is far greater. "If we don't take care of this issue now, we will have huge numbers of Type 2 diabetics, and we will be paying for them with our tax dollars," says Dr. Phyllis Preciado, an internist who runs a diabetes clinic in California's farming-rich Central Valley. As the U.S. loses productive members of the work force, she notes, more people will turn to public assistance for treatment. And the increased toll in human suffering will be staggering...