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...chronic lack of resources to meet those needs. Opened in 1988 at the height of the war against the Soviet Union, the organization's Afghanistan orthopedic programs have treated more than 76,000. But they don't stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad Ortho Center in Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto Cairo, an effusive Italian who heads the orthopedic program. "If you want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because...
...offer these medications at a lower price. Once federal law abolished such subsidies, the formerly discounted drugs increased to a higher price. When UHS’ stock of contraceptives ran dry, University doctors switched students from brand-name contraceptives to their generic equivalents. For birth control pills such as Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, which have no generic counterpart, students were required to pay the higher premiums. Students in this category were in the minority, according to DiRusso. Most students were already on generic birth control before the federal law came into effect, he added. For the future, Harvard students need...
...Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo is the only affected drug without a generic counterpart. However, DiRusso says the HUHS pharmacy still holds large stockpiles of the medication from before the new law came into effect...
...steel into someone's thigh bone with a (sterile) five pound maul - all in the name of good will toward man. Our patients generally get better and the uniquely orthopedic interaction of science and humanity makes for a great richness of experience in our everyday lives. Ask any doc - ortho is fun. And while not much of a relativist, I can imagine that docs in other specialties love their fields as well - though maybe not all ("ah, the romance of ... nephrology...
...Miguel Adrover's show, sponsored by UPS, a guy dressed as one of the company's delivery men suddenly appeared on the runway toting a huge box covered with UPS stickers. At Rosa Cha, Brazilian bikinis were accessorized with birth-control patches, courtesy of Ortho Evra. The designers for the collective called As Four emerged on the catwalk smoking. Their sponsor was Legal Cigarettes...