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Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine indicates that countries in the developing world are totally unprepared for a pandemic. That's especially true in Africa, where many nations lack pandemic plans altogether, even though high rates of HIV infection there would probably worsen the toll of...
? After resigning her position as English-department head at a London college, U.A. Fanthorpe, 79, an acclaimed British poet, took a receptionist job at a neurological hospital, where she witnessed tragic stories that incited her to start writing verse.
Panic over the threat of a global pandemic has subsided since early May, as governments around the world have stepped up preventive measures that seem to be keeping the virus under control. But Japan's weekend cases are not alone; by Sunday, the U.K. confirmed 14 more cases, while Turkey...
Cheyney's conversations with physicians turned up other, more complicated issues. When hospital-based obstetricians see midwives and their clients it's usually because something has gone wrong and the laboring mother is rushed in for care. OBs don't see the uneventful births that proceed successfully at home. What...
Although conservative critics have long opposed giving clean needles to drug addicts on moral grounds, the consensus among public health experts - including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association - is that the strategy works to reduce the spread of HIV. "I think the evidence for needle exchange is...