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...supports HIV awareness and prevention programs around the world, was after. So the organization conducted the first global survey of people's perceptions of AIDS, polling people in nine different countries, including the U.S. The results were unexpected: Nearly half of the survey respondents thought that AIDS was not fatal. In India, where rates of HIV are rising, 59% of respondents believed that HIV is a curable disease. And 50% of people overall believed that most patients diagnosed with HIV are currently receiving treatment, when in fact only one in five of such patients received antiretroviral therapy last year...
...being overly cautious? Not at all, Ting says, describing the attitude of doctors who brush off slightly elevated blood pressure as "the fatal smile" syndrome. "Patients get a clean bill of health from such doctors, and the next week they get a stroke," he says. "It's not enough to treat people with very high blood pressure. We're targeting people with no symptoms...
...nations’ religions, allegiances, needs, hopes, and histories. Of course, he is by no means the first to make this observation. If there is one lesson that the Western world has learned from the last half-century, it is that a failure to understand other cultures can be fatal. Still, Andelman succeeds in establishing that the implications of the 1919 peace treaty are much greater in scope than we tend to think. Germany’s were not the only delegates who left the negotiating table discontented, though their dissatisfaction was most immediately explosive. If we can take anything...
...past two months, international medical journals have published a flurry of review papers and studies on the link between fatal heart disease and stress. In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers in Quebec reported that first-time heart-attack patients who returned to chronically stressful jobs were twice as likely to have a second attack as patients who found their work to be relatively stress-free. In another study published in October in the Archives of Internal Medicine, University of London researchers said that British civil servants with stormy intimate relationships had a 34% higher...
...investigation on the NGO on suspicions of "intermediary activity in unauthorized adoptions". Zoe's Ark officials have responded with repeated statements that their operation did not involve adoption. They've similarly explained that while their care in Chadian camps allowed most of the children to recover from the near fatal conditions they were found in, their continuously fragile physical and mental health requires rapid relocation to a stable environment...