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...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed by qualified specialists, but for the clinic they represent a revenue stream to a former barefoot doctor with no medical degree. The sole way of covering expenses at a place like this is to "charge for medicine," says village chief Li Jinghua. So medical workers often prescribe them unnecessarily. According to UNICEF, 60% of China's health-care spending goes to drugs, compared with the worldwide average of 15%. Even in China's cities, where hospitals receive greater government support, UNICEF estimates that hospitals generate about half of the money needed...
...Dunster House, Steven M. Corsello, Avram D. Heilman, Jeffrey W. Helfrich, Mark W. Kirby, Jeffries L. Oliver-Li, Julie D. Rosenberg and Rachel S. Weinerman...
...China?the weak link in any anti-Kim lynch mob?the talks were especially arresting. Chinese officials have long opined that North Korea may not actually have nukes. That's now a harder pose to strike. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, according to news reports, was "appalled" by North Korea's performance, and China was said to be anxious about the possibility of "war on our border...
Rounding out the field events for the Harvard women was junior Andrea Li, who placed fourth in the pole vault (3.36 meters...