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...immune response that causes everything from arthritis to sinus infections, inflammation in the arteries turns out to be as dangerous for the heart as high cholesterol levels in the blood. "Inflammation has really changed our whole outlook on heart disease," says Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic...
...Internet and other high-tech equipment to keep track of your vital statistics and your treatment, reminding you to take your medicine or schedule a follow-up exam with the doctor. On rare occasions, and at the last minute, they might even drive you to, say, a dialysis clinic if no other options are available...
...oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially its abundance of rare animals and medicinal herbs - and spun them into treasure. The Lis proudly give me a tour of their traditional Chinese medicine clinic, which is packed with patients. Their purified-water factory is rated one of the cleanest in Kenya. The Lis may have come for personal reasons, but national dreams are built on the shoulders of individual adventurers...
...turned less on national ambition than economic desperation. State hospitals could no longer afford to pay the two traditional Chinese-medicine doctors a living wage. So they packed their suitcases, paid final respects at their ancestors' graves and headed to Mombasa, where they heard that just maybe a medical clinic was needed. Today, they administer acupuncture to squirming Kenyan patients, and dry homemade noodles on a clothesline in their dining room. "We have created a little China in Mombasa," says Li's wife, Ge Yuehua, as she pushes pickled cucumbers onto my dinner plate...
...those innocent kids, except I'm 58. I've always had a slight heart murmur, inherited from my flinty ancestors, and when the valve came loose at the moorings, there wasn't much doubt about it. So my wife drove me to the Mayo Clinic, and they wheeled me into a bright blue industrial room and put a mask over my face, and I took a breath, and it was eight hours later...