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...HEART MONITOR You may be surprised to learn that if you rush to the emergency room with shortness of breath, there is a 40% chance that the doctors won't be able to tell if it's your heart, your lungs or something else that's failing. That may change, thanks to a study of 1,500 patients conducted at the San Diego Veterans Administration. Doctors showed that measuring levels of a particular heart hormone, BNP, could improve by 75% doctors' chances of accurately diagnosing heart failure in patients with difficulty breathing. The BNP test, which costs $20, is used...
FRANCE Death on His Mind When Richard Durn used a gun to threaten a psychiatrist in 1998, no action was taken. Even though the school monitor had a history of mental illness, his membership in a shooting club was enough to qualify him to own handguns. At the end of a municipal council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week, Durn pulled out two 9-mm pistols and calmly shot dead eight members of the council and wounded 19 other people. As he was wrestled to the ground, he shouted "Kill me! Kill me!" The following...
NIGERIA Code of Conduct African leaders sought to bolster international investment on the continent by implementing a peer-review system to monitor economic reform and good governance. Meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, representatives of 19 countries agreed on eight draft codes of conduct to be monitored by an independent African body. The aim is to ensure Africa keeps its side of the deal to attract some $64 billion a year under a proposed "Marshall Plan" for Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD...
...Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PHRma), sent e-mails to company reps in Washington warning that Wood's appointment was imminent. Attached were copies of medical journal articles by Wood in which he called for curbs on drug ads aimed at consumers and for more money to monitor the safety of drugs on the market...
...work should keep him busy. Surveillance cameras are proliferating everywhere. Police monitor high-crime areas. Business owners keep tabs on their workers. According to the China Daily, mainland China's English-language newspaper, spy cameras are a hit with consumers in Guangdong province, where spouses are tracking their mates and store owners watch out for shoplifters. After stumbling upon a Tokyo-based pornographic website showing photos of female passengers on Taipei subway trains, a Taipei city councilor recently fueled public paranoia by announcing that the transit system had been infiltrated by Japanese criminals carrying cameras disguised as briefcases...