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...often do you provide end-of-life counseling? It comes up very frequently in our practice, either with new patients who present very ill, or patients we have known for a very long time that have encountered a new serious condition that may be life-threatening. Death is not an option. Everyone is going to die at some point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Issues of End-of-Life Care | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...Generations of Sogola residents have watched their children fall ill each rainy season, laid low by diarrhea, a disease which kills an astonishing 1.6 million children under 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Death is roaming here," says Traoré, 28. "It seems the children who have died are more than the children who live." (See pictures of of how zinc is saving lives in Mali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...intense frustration of aid groups and government officials, only about 35% of families in diarrhea-stricken countries use ORT - less than half the WHO's target. Until zinc arrived in Sogola, only about one in 10 village residents used the sachets when they or their children became ill. That number has soared since Traoré added zinc tablets to the prescription. "Mothers don't see ORT as real treatment," says Eric Swedberg, senior director of child health and nutrition at Save the Children U.S. in Westport, Conn. "But when you add the zinc you really see the effects. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...ill will between the Larijanis and Ahmadinejad is also rooted in a social class divide, according to Sadjadpour. The Larijani brothers are the progeny of the late Grand Ayatullah Mirza Hashem Amoli, a marja whose interpretations of Islam are considered binding by a following of devout Shi'ite Muslims. Some of his sons have also married into prominent clerical families, giving them status beyond politics. Ali Larijani represents Qum, the center of Islamic scholarship in Iran, in parliament. Ahmadinejad, by contrast, is the son of a blacksmith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...been extradited to the United States and some other ranking members have been put in a specially built 800-prisoner capacity top security penitentiary in Mexico State. But tens of thousands of more convicts are shunted into state and city jails across the country, causing record overcrowding and overwhelming ill-equipped local guards. (See pictures from Mexico's drug wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think California's Prisons are a Problem? Look at Mexico's | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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