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Some caveats should be kept in mind. You need a physician's prescription to get a home AED, and because cardiac arrest quickly leads to a loss of consciousness, you cannot use one on yourself. Also, in the rush to find the AED, family members might forget to call 911, which the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association both stress should always be the first step. And at $2,295, the HeartStart isn't cheap, which raises questions about how cost effective their widespread use may be. The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring several studies to look...
...using a term of respect. "He is one of us." Elected mayor of Istanbul in 1994, Erdogan banned drinking from city-owned caf?s, but also resurrected a failing fresh water supply and cleared the trash from the city's cobblestone streets. "He's a perfectionist," says Mehmet Muezzinoglu, a physician and party colleague who has known Erdogan since high school. Rusen Cakir, an Erdogan biographer and expert on political Islam, stresses the politician's provincial upbringing and working-class values. "Unlike Erbakan, who was a spiritual father, Erdogan is more familiar, like a brother." He is also, says Cakir...
Mark Vonnegut, who is now a Milton, Mass.-based primary care physician and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979, answered that people were more medicated today but were not being cured...
...case of defeat, she says, she plans to continue her activism from her position as a physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School, where she specializes in environmental health...
That's not the case in Vermont, where Medicaid spending on prescription drugs jumped from $40 million in 1998 to $115 million last year. There, according to a new law, a drug company can be fined $10,000 for every physician's gift in excess of $25 that it fails to report to a state registry. Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Wisconsin are considering similar legislation. "Doctors don't want their names in public as taking money or tickets or whatnot from drug companies," says Vermont Governor Howard Dean...