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...went back to the doctor by herself. She had coughed up blood that day and had a 40-degrees Celsius fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Her husband says the doctor recommended another medicine. "It did not work," Jose Luis says. Adela's cough became worse, she was suffering from respiratory distress and her hands and feet were showing signs of cyanosis - that is, they were turning blue. On April 8, they returned to the doctor a third time. It was then, Jose Luis says, "the doctor told us to take her to the Civil Hospital...
...drugs work by inhibiting an enyzme chemical helper that the flu virus uses to spread from infected human cells to healthy ones. So while not killing the virus, it helps the body fight off the disease by slowing its spread. This, in turn, may help prevent "acute respiratory distress syndrome" - the sudden worsening of flu that, along with secondary lung infections, is a main cause of death among influenza patients. There is also evidence to suggest that they can be used prophylactically - to prevent rather than treat the disease. "We don't have many tools in our medicine cabinet...
National service often feels like motherhood and apple pie--who's not for it? Indeed, the bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. But at a time of economic distress and dislocation, service has come to seem like a silver bullet that can help address some of our most intractable problems. Applications for AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America are pouring in--there are many more applicants than spots. Is that due to the economy? Perhaps. The bill authorizes $5.7 billion for national service over the next five years, which can jump-start a range of programs to help schools...
...hillside classroom in Medellín, a group of teenage boys take crayons to long sheets of unfurled paper. One draws the detonation pin of a hand grenade. Another sketches blood splattered across a body. Scrawled words say what the pictures can't: Hunger. Kidnappings. Revenge. Displacement. Distress...
...they've just been lying or exaggerating, or telling you what they think you want to hear." In fact, a 1963 CIA interrogation manual warned that those resisting questioning "are likely to become intractable if made to endure pain" or generate "false, concocted as a means of escaping from distress...