Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy was not always so well directed. By the time he entered law school at the University of Alabama, Fuller and a college chum had a business partnership that was churning out moneymaking schemes. By the time he had made his million, he was a workaholic, and his health was suffering. His wife Linda left home one day, announcing that she was off to decide whether she wanted to continue being wed to a man who was married to his business...
Some consumer advocates think women should be warned that the safety of oral contraceptives is in question. "It's not clear the Pill is not associated with breast cancer," contended Judy Norsigian of Boston's Women's Health Book Collective. But most scientists, including those who conducted the disturbing studies, backed the FDA's stance. Said Bruce Stadel, an agency epidemiologist: "The findings are inconsistent and difficult to reconcile with biological plausibility...
...Lambarene in what is now Gabon. Others seek adventure, challenge, an opportunity to hone their skills in a real-life laboratory where nearly every case is an emergency. Many discover that much of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to the life-and-death crises and health needs of the world's poor, and go on to make a career of volunteer medicine...
...Christophe Paquet, 31, had just finished medical school in Paris in 1984 when he accepted his first assignment in Honduras. "It was a very strong experience," he says, "and I was hooked." After subsequent postings to Thailand, Sudan and India, he is now studying public health at the University of California, Berkeley, to further his international work. "In France and elsewhere we are becoming more and more specialized," he says. "It's not the kind of medicine that is needed in the Third World...
...medics' heroics in Afghanistan have boosted their stature. Increasingly, international health organizations have sought them out for advice and assistance. The volunteers are well positioned, for example, to provide early-warning information on epidemics. M.S.F. is conducting AIDS research in Zaire and Rwanda, two of the most afflicted areas in Africa, while its clinics in the war-stricken zones along Sudan's southern borders are documenting the spread of the disease northward...