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MACGYVER to return as feature film made solely out of dental floss and AAA batteries...
Karen Tumulty's sad story about her brother points out so much that is wrong with our health-care system. The best health-care-reform option of all: a single-payer, universal plan that provides comprehensive coverage, including dental, eye, mental health, etc., to all citizens. The best part of all is that it is already in Congress: HR 676. The opponents of HR 676 are beholden to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is time for a change. Anita Simons, LA JOLLA, CALIF...
There were eerie parallels in their narrative arcs: miserable childhoods; the unprepared plunge into the media glare; success and scandals; and premature death. Socially poles apart, the onetime dental nurse born to poverty and the onetime nursery-school assistant born to nobility were the most prominent avatars of a wide strand of English celebrity culture, defiantly anti-intellectual and unashamedly emotional. "I suppose [Goody] was a kind of Princess Di from the wrong side of the tracks," mused comedian Stephen Fry on Twitter...
...Epidemiology at HSPH. The association found in this study can be of “substantial public health importance,” said Hu, who was a co-author of the paper. Monik C. Jimenez—a fifth year doctoral student at HSPH and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine who was the study’s principal researcher—said that she hopes the knowledge of this link will lead dentists to play a more active role in educating their patients about their overall health. “I think dentists...have an obligation and a duty...
...knapsacks. "We don't want backpacks that look like they came from a shelter," says Elizabeth Hinz, district liaison for homeless and highly mobile students. In the winter, her staff members hand out coats, mittens and hats. Year-round, they find free medical clinics to treat earaches and provide dental services. School social workers take kids to get glasses and vaccinations. Many high schools offer laundry or shower facilities for teenagers - who are often left to fend for themselves when a family becomes homeless - as well as a secure locker for their belongings. "We've seen students put their whole...