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There is still no cure. Patients are given supportive care for their symptoms, such as ventilators to aid breathing and fluids to prevent dehydration. Some researchers are searching for drugs that would block coronavirus infections; others are trying to develop a vaccine. Scientists have already sequenced the entire genome of the coronavirus, a major step in developing better treatments...
...implicit tension exists between the priorities of public health and those of clinical medicine. While medicine deals primarily with individuals who are ill, and seeks to cure or ameliorate their condition, public health deals primarily with communities and populations, and prevention of illness is our major priority. In a sense, SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, encapsulates a not unrelated set of issues relating to priorities and values for individuals and the community...
...barnstorm the country for his plan to eliminate the tax on dividends and accelerate income-tax rate cuts, the president was in no mood to go off message. "We understand capital," Bush asserted, laying the groundwork for his central argument that tax cuts spur growth and serve as a cure-all for most economic ills. "I remember in the '80s, when people said we will have deficits forever," Bush said. "The next thing I know is that in the late '90s we begin to get into surplus. We've got to generate additional growth to get additional revenues...
...those publicity campaigns that have focused attention on breast cancer may be part of the problem. The pink ribbons, the docudramas and the races for a cure have inadvertently left women with the impression that breast cancer is the only thing they need be worried about. So when public-health officials at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) decided to spread the word about women's risk of heart disease with a campaign called Heart Truth, they took a page from the cancer advocates' manual, designed their own lapel pin--in the shape of a bright red dress...
...veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer, no doubt, but the consecrated rope he uses to hang his victims also has the power to cure sickness. Is he an agent of karma? A mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp...