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Volandes believes that using images and videos of advanced dementia could be particularly helpful for educating populations that have traditionally low levels of health literacy in the U.S., including African Americans and the elderly. Previous studies have suggested that minorities typically opt for more aggressive end-of-life care than their Caucasian counterparts - "but what we've found in this study is that health literacy is the driving force in this discrepancy, not culture," says Volandes...
...percent of the 14,000 participants in the program, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mail statement. But confusion was widespread, both among those who did not receive the texts and those who did. Many students said they failed to realize the system required them to opt in every year, even if they had signed up for the program in previous years. “I thought I was registered but wasn’t, so that was pretty surprising when everyone else was like ‘I got a text message...
...directly by those organizations regarding any changes. Winnie said that there is one Harvard-sponsored internship program in Mexico run by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In addition, there are half a dozen undergraduates researching or traveling in the country on Harvard grants. Students may still opt out of attending university-sponsored travels to Mexico if they are personally concerned about the outbreak. “We understand that one’s health is a very personal thing. If a student decides not to go to Mexico, we will sit down with...
...against the lethal health crises they battle every day, the truth is that the threat of another disease - even a pandemic flu - tends to elicit shrugs in this sickness-struck continent. If asked what preparations they are making for the possibility of swine flu's arrival, most African governments opt for the same kind of wordy non-statement issued by African Union chairman Jean Ping on Thursday: "We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary a mechanism to fight this outbreak that has not yet affected Africa...
...world’s knowledge. Numerous authors have voiced dissatisfaction with the terms, believing the $125 million that Google paid them in the settlement to make amends for copyright infringement and the future revenue sharing agreement is unfair and that the license-by-default (authors have to opt out by May 2010 to not be included in the database) is illegal. Consumer Watchdog and Internet Archives have both filed suits objecting to the settlement based upon antitrust law.However, amidst all the uproar, and the settlement’s 134 pages of legalese, a real issue has been ignored...