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...Among the researchers was Ambros Uchtenhagen, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Zurich, who set up clinics in Switzerland where drug users injected heroin under doctor supervision and received counseling. "We found highly persistent improvement [among the patients]," says Uchtenhagen. Today, there are 23 clinics across the country that treat roughly 2,200 drug users, or about 6% of the nation's heroin addicts. The average stay is three years - a quick stint for users who average 15 years of heroin use. Less than 15% relapse into daily use. "In the beginning, without their daily chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Doctors Are Giving Heroin to Heroin Addicts | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...reasons for distrusting the drug companies and the Federal Government, so we compromised. Our son got all the shots, but we searched for brands low in aluminum and spaced out the injections over time. Which is fine with me because it means a few extra visits to the doctor's office to make sure things are O.K.-- and a lot less fighting. I'm just hoping her yoga joint doesn't do seminars on peanut allergies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...really heating up,” said Onie, who founded Project HEALTH with Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center Barry S. Zuckerman during her sophomore year at Harvard. Onie had worked in the Housing Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services during her freshman year when she met a doctor who talked to her about the link between health and poverty. According to Onie, she realized that families were getting sick because they were forced to purchase prescription medication themselves and could not afford to pay rent. “We’re never going to improve the health...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MacArthur Program Names ’09 Recipients | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...Congress has offered worthwhile, partial solutions. Universal coverage will allow everyone to visit a doctor before minor health issues turn into expensive, life-threatening ones. A proposed insurance exchange for individuals and small businesses will promote greater competition between insurers, making coverage cheaper. Cutting Medicare reimbursement rates will encourage greater efficiency from doctors and hospitals. These provisions will achieve real cost savings from...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Unbendable? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...After “A Darker Shade of Crimson” was published, Navarrette got a call from a retired doctor in Fresno, where Navarrette now works as a journalist. “He said, ‘When I was going through USC in the 1930’s, I was one of only a handful of Jewish kids. And so my experience of being Jewish at USC in the 1930’s,’ he said, ‘was exactly the same as you being Latino in Harvard in the 1980?...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dropping the H-Bomb | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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