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...unique alliance of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates will bring new hope for solving the global health crisis. Having practiced medicine for almost 50 years, mostly in France, I recently returned from a teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. I was appalled to see patients there with acute pneumonia (very likely related to aids) sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono...
...Thai epidemiologists and volunteers. That makes for faster reaction times when the disease strikes, and "speed is essential in trying to contain any outbreak," says Dr. Sonja Olsen, the IEIP's acting director. In rural hospitals in Sa Kaeo province, which borders Cambodia, patients who are initially diagnosed with pneumonia - the sort of severe respiratory disease that could be confused with bird flu - are now immediately tested for bird flu. Their blood samples, nasal swabs and chest X-rays are double-checked for the H5N1 virus at sophisticated labs in Bangkok and Atlanta, allowing doctors to catch an outbreak almost...
...nodding robotically, while Melinda leans forward to ask questions and hold babies. On the first day of their trip, after flying all night to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from Seattle, the Gateses visited a place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys with holes in the center so that diarrhea would land in a bucket below...
...history. His criticism appeared in a Dec. 10 article published in the British Medical Journal. Doshi’s article raised three main points of contention: an alleged misrepresentation on the CDC website, alleged inconsistencies in the CDC data, and a dubious causality between flu and deaths caused by pneumonia. Doshi told The Crimson that his interest in the topic sparked after the CDC reported an increase in the average annual death rate, in 2003, from 20,000 to 36,000. According to Doshi, the CDC made a strong connection between pneumonia-related deaths and the flu. The CDC ascribed...
...play with other animals and not to be afraid of people. Also, health problems can pile up. In May, Lancaster County residents Raymond and Joyce Stoltzfus agreed to pay some $50,000 to reimburse 171 customers who claimed the puppies they bought from the couple suffered from pneumonia, heart defects and kidney failure...