Word: cures
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...expanding, the reach of detection and treatment isn't. For a woman battling breast cancer in the industrialized West, new diagnosis and treatment options come along all the time. Not so elsewhere. On Sept. 28 and 29, the U.S.-based breast-cancer advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure convened an international conference of doctors, advocates and survivors in Budapest. The delegates shared stories from more than 30 countries, and the differences among them were stark. In the U.S., an estimated $8.1 billion is spent to diagnose and treat breast cancer each year, and the ubiquity of mammography machines...
...these local problems and beliefs mean that solutions will have to be similarly regionalized. "Physicians country by country will have to figure out how to beat this cancer," says Dr. Eric Winer, chief scientific adviser to Komen for the Cure. As a TIME investigation in North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East showed, there are places where those solutions are being found - and places where they aren't. There are countries in which lives are being saved - and others in which far too many are still being lost. In all of them, the first step...
...things may be changing. Non?governmental groups such as Komen for the Cure and the World Health Organization sponsor lectures, professional gatherings and promotional events to educate women and caregivers about the disease. Grass-roots initiatives are sprouting up in places that never dared mention the disease before. Dr. Mohamed Shaalan, a breast surgeon in Cairo, reports that in Egypt, religious leaders now speak out in favor of breast-cancer awareness and screening, making it clear to husbands that their wives must be examined regularly - by male doctors if need be. In Hungary, where every woman from...
...Budapest, the U.S.-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an advocacy group with 125 affiliates around the world, convened a conference of doctors, survivors and advocates from 31 countries to map a global plan of action. A quiet march by 5,000 participants across the city's famed Chain Bridge--lit pink for the event--was the solemn coda to the meeting. But months before the Komen event was held, we had mobilized our own global resources to cover this growing health problem. Time's Hong Kong-based correspondent Kathleen Kingsbury, who wrote our cover story, surveyed the state...
...allergies? if so, you know the relief of Benadryl, since 1946 the cure for everything from rashes to runny noses. Its inventor, George Rieveschl, became a chemical engineer after failing to get a job as a commercial artist. In the 1940s, while researching muscle relaxants, he found that his two-part compound blocked itch-causing histamines. Unlike predecessors, Benadryl did not cause severe drowsiness. It made him millions. "It seemed like bad luck at the time," he said of the nosedive he took as an artist, "but it ended up working out pretty well...