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...businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: the Icelandic Ministry of Health has set up an emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjavík to help citizens distressed by the country's economic implosion. Located on the second floor of an old health clinic, it stands ready to treat a torrent of mentally anguished Icelanders. As yet, business has been slow. Dr. Ragnar Ólafsson, one of two full-time psychologists assigned to the clinic, was savoring a sandwich alone in his office a few days ago. "Not many people have come...
...puzzled. Based on the descriptions, internet addiction seemed utterly dire. I expected to be whisked away to a clinic with an optimistic name like “Wireless Promises” and slowly nursed back to health by a team of experts. Instead, no one seemed to think I had a problem. And perhaps there was good reason for this. Perhaps “Net Addiction” is not so much a constant danger that looms over people who know and use the internet as it is a fear of people who don?...
...matches the local government in the construction of facilities that would be a local place for the mentally ill to be taken care of. We're a nation that is really hell-bent on trying to do more and more for humankind all the time. I went to a clinic that handles little tiny babies that are born premature and they showed us what new equipment they have and how the baby can be saved and nourished at even a pound and a half. We spend hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to save little premature babies and that...
...early entrant, Chindex was able to negotiate a 90% ownership interest in its Beijing hospital. In 2000, China officially permitted foreign companies to pursue hospital and clinic joint ventures but limited ownership to 70%. Sino-U.S. joint ventures share the marketplace with players such as Singapore-based Parkway Group Healthcare and Hong Kong--based Global HealthCare...
...that may be the study's most significant finding, says Dr. Sandra Hassink, director of the Weight Management Clinic at A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., and leader of the Obesity Leadership Group at the American Academy of Pediatrics. What's more, instituting a technique such as reading to promote weight loss would be fairly easy. Already, the Reach Out and Read Program, a nationwide non-profit literacy effort begun by pediatricians at the Boston Medical Center in 1989, encourages reading by providing books to preschool children each time they visit the doctor's office. Why not piggyback...