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...CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD The millions of people who buy echinacea to prevent or relieve cold symptoms may be wasting their money, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a test of 500 subjects, those taking the herb fared no better than those taking a placebo...
...when they don't need them, and then they get angry at the doctors when they try to explain why the drugs won't help," says Dr. Tong Zhaohui, vice director of the respiratory department at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital. To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better?especially if you can get dosed directly through an intravenous line. "They say, 'I want an IV,' and they'll fight with you when you refuse it," says Tong...
...change" and, in answer to a question about the accusations of corruption that have been leveled against her husband and son, declared, "My attitude is that family comes last" [June 13]. Arroyo must rise above the political turmoil and the government's instability and show her true worth. The cure for this government's malady is not a constitutional convention or new tax laws. The country will be stable only when graft, nepotism and all forms of corruption are tossed into the waste bin. Arroyo has the makings of a great President if only she would act with faith, honesty...
...reassure civil libertarians, who are concerned that the system could be used to spy on consumers, with a promise not to track cardholders' movements or sell their personal information. But the company, which relies on Lockheed Martin technology for its biometric identification cards, is not pitching itself as a cure-all. Says VIP founder Steven Brill: "This is not risk elimination. It's risk management...
...especially at risk; their annual AIDS case rate is 25 times that of white women. Citing those statistics, significant numbers of black Americans subscribe to various AIDS conspiracy theories. According to a poll conducted for the Rand Corp. last January, 53% of black Americans surveyed believe there is a cure for AIDS that is being withheld from the poor, and 15% believe the disease was created by the government in order to control the black population. Phil Wilson, director of the Black AIDS Institute, says such attitudes are hampering his work with antiretroviral drugs. "The most common thing we hear...