Word: medicale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The problem with that approach, some health-care experts say, is that employees have even less control over medical costs than do corporations. "What can an ordinary phoneworker do about the prices that hospitals and physicians charge?" asks Dale Hiestand, professor of corporate relations at the Columbia University School of...
There is far more research on the question of who is most likely to get killed when someone keeps a gun at home. In a 1986 study called "Protection or Peril?," Dr. Arthur Kellermann, a University of Tennessee professor of medicine, and Dr. Donald Reay, chief medical examiner of King...
As he talked to the human beings who run the zoos, Willwerth was especially impressed by the dedication that curators feel to their quite modestly paid jobs. He was also drawn into the difficult issues of animal management. Says Willwerth: "Listening to complex discussions of gene pools, habitat destruction, medical...
Davis has contributed millions of dollars to medical research. From 1978 to 1985, he and his wife Barbara were the hosts of Denver's annual Carousel Ball, a glittering, star-studded bash devoted to fund raising for diabetes research. (One of Davis' three daughters suffers from the disease.) Since moving...
Jim Finn makes money from the crabs. He runs a small company that converts the crabs' blood into the limulus amoebocyte-lysate test used to detect contamination in drugs and other medical products. Each year Finn pays college students to collect crabs and siphon their rich blue blood, which possesses...