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Supplements: None Niman gives no supplements whatsoever to his cattle - no drugs, no hormones, no additives. That's not ironclad for organic beef - some companies might use antimicrobials - but generally the animals are supplement-free...
...most people. Despite the easy availability of the shots, fewer than 40% of Americans get them in any one year - never mind that flu kills some 36,000 of us annually. But this flu season is likely to be different. Thanks to the new H1N1/09 virus, to which almost none of us are immune, flu anxiety is high - and demand for the new vaccine should be too. Washington is now gearing up to respond, hoping to inoculate millions of Americans and blunt the severity of the first pandemic in four decades...
...have thoughts on how to fix the education system? None that would make me very popular. I think that generalists' residencies need to be made longer so that you can spend more time in the hospital. The government's not going to like that, because it's another year of training they have to pay for. Residents are certainly not going to like it because it makes their already extended training even longer. (See "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Traoré shows me a weathered school exercise book, in which he lists deaths. There are several diarrhea deaths for previous years - but none in 2008 or 2009. "Since zinc arrived we have had no deaths from diarrhea," Traoré says. Cradling her 10-month-old son outside, Maimouna Bakayogo, 32, says she panicked when her baby developed stomach pains, diarrhea and fever. "I was really afraid," she says. "Then I remembered Moussa saying there was zinc in the village. I went to get some from him, and within one day I saw a big difference. The baby looked much...
...three of my children," she says. "I have been very unlucky." Now, she says, when one of her children gets sick she heads straight to the village pharmacy and buys a course of zinc tablets. Though several of the five womens' children have been sick in the past year, none has died. (See pictures of the fight against the Guinea Worm...