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What's more, even where records exist, there is usually no way to confirm their validity. Doctors in the developing world often lack lab facilities to authenticate cases of suspected malaria. Perhaps more often, they never even get to see patients who have the disease - many patients either cannot afford the time or money to see a doctor or they simply self-diagnose and take cheap over-the-counter medications to battle malaria-like symptoms. The WHO estimates that nationally reported (but often unvalidated) malaria cases account for just 40% of the global estimate; the other 60% comes from "detective...
...Chianti. The Numerati are also behind the algorithms that drive matchmaking websites, the National Security Agency's work to nab terrorists before they strike and, increasingly, the cutting edge of medicine. Consider a "magic carpet" that detects changes in your elderly father's weight and gait--tipping off his doctor to a potential illness. The Numerati, Baker writes, try to model "something almost hopelessly complex: human life and behavior." They're making progress...
...poor countries. To be sure, maternal health has seen advances, with new drugs to treat deadly postpartum bleeding and pregnancy-related anemia. But in many places, such gains are dwarfed by a multitude of problems: scattershot care, low pay for health workers and a scarcity of midwives and doctors. In Mozambique, where women have a 1 in 45 lifetime chance of dying in childbirth, there are just 3 doctors per 100,000 people; in all of Sierra Leone, there are 64 government doctors, only five of whom are gynecologists. Millions of families have never seen a doctor or nurse...
...Sunday in August in Kora Olia, a remote village in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, where maternal mortality is about four times the country's already high rate. Nine months pregnant, Harakatmo, 19, began bleeding heavily. Her husband and mother-in-law were concerned, but the local doctor was far away, and expensive, so they waited. When Harakatmo was still bleeding the next morning, they sent a horseman to fetch a village health worker, but Harakatmo's bleeding continued. Panicked, her husband strapped her to a makeshift stretcher and carried her down the steep track from their home until...
...also important for women to raise the issue with their family physician or gynecologist. Physicians have to depend on patients to detail symptoms like urinary and fecal incontinence that are not apparent in a routine physical exam. Pelvic-organ prolapse, in severe cases, may be obvious to a doctor, Nygaard said, but in some cases women don't necessarily feel discomfort, so patients need to explain their symptoms and ask for a physical exam...