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...Health officials are clear in their answers. Aside from lack of money and political will, they also face entrenched traditions and fatalistic attitudes to maternal mortality, especially in very poor communities. "People think that dying in childbirth is not preventable," says Nadira Hayat, Afghanistan's Deputy Minister of Health. "They...
...extraordinary missed opportunity in fighting cancer centers on the lack of primary prevention: avoid, reduce and eliminate exposure to carcinogens [Sept. 15]. Shamefully, the National Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancers, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment. Mortality for certain cancers has decreased slightly in the past few years, but the incidence of cancers has not. With more than 100,000 chemicals and formula combinations on the consumer market and less than 5% evaluated for cancer-causing potential, it is past time for identifying chemical and environmental carcinogens. James Huff, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health...
...only can Harvard graduates not always rely on jobs in finance (as this year shows), but they also should not feel pigeonholed into applying for such jobs for lack of clear guidance in other fields. OCS should be congratulated for “turning up the volume on diverse career options.” Until Harvard’s options are buzzing with talk of these options, however, the volume clearly isn’t high enough...
...have worked in nations where the press was not free—where it served as a mouthpiece of the state or special interests under Soviet communism, for instance, or a host of Middle Eastern and Asian dictatorships. Their nations, their people were far the worse for this lack of an unfettered press...
...also home to 7,500 hospitals, 18,000 nursing homes, a school system that is heavily understaffed, and a military that is dangerously undermanned. But last Thursday, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain said that not enough Americans volunteer, and, they claim, this is due to a lack of opportunities...