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...midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with three alleged accomplices, who are currently on trial in Los Angeles. CLEARED. TAKESHI ABE, 84, former head of internal medicine and vice president of Teikyo University Hospital, of professional negligence for allowing a patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge ruled that his actions could not be termed negligent because he may not have known at the time of the danger to the patient, who subsequently died from AIDS. SACKED. YURI KRAVCHENKO, 50, Ukrainian Interior Minister...
...They might have to be patient, though: at the stagiaire party at La Bouche á L'Oreille, the attendees spent much of the night schmoozing in the lobby, shouting over the house music booming from the speakers in the makeshift dance hall. Some people stood in between the two rooms, trying to groove to the beat and still carry on their conversations. At midnight the dance floor was still empty, and the party organizers wondered whether they had hired the wrong DJ. But by two in the morning, the lobby began to clear and the multilingual din subsided. In true...
...antibiotics prescribed each year are for upper-respiratory infections. Yet most of these are unnecessary. New guidelines should make it easier for doctors to just say no. (The advice doesn't apply to individuals over 65 or those with diabetes or chronic heart and lung disease.) Patients shouldn't think they're getting poor treatment if their doctors don't prescribe antibiotics. Stick to over-the-counter products to ease symptoms. And be patient, patient! The bug will eventually go away...
...heart attacks or the bypass operations afterward that for some reason often leave the patient prone to depression? It seems an odd emotional logic to become depressed after having been given new piping and a new lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary-artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery damages the memory. Mine was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason...
...drugmakers couched their action in philanthropic terms, but the companies have more than their reputations at stake. Generic drugmakers, like India's Cipla Ltd. and Hetero Drugs, have already offered three-drug combos for $350 to $600 a year per patient, 40% less than the best prices offered in developing countries by Western firms...