Word: polio
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...Roosevelt's battle with polio in his 30s that gave him insight and empathy, he continued...
JOHN WALKER Stricken with polio at 41, Dorothy Walker Bush's brother quit his surgery practice and became an investment banker. He was also president of Sloan-Kettering's Memorial Hospital in New York City, where ROBIN BUSH was treated for leukemia...
DIED. WILLIAM WHYTE, 86, reform-minded sociologist whose 1943 book on Italian-American gangs, Street Corner Society, became a best seller; in Ithaca, N.Y. A prolific and outspoken author, Whyte taught at Cornell University and, despite having suffered from polio, conducted extensive fieldwork...
...health-care spending--and far less in places like Nigeria and Kenya--compared with an average of $2,485 in developed countries like the U.S. Less than half the people in the area have access to clean water, and just over half of all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, polio and tetanus. The notion that African countries can somehow buy and distribute the expensive drugs that can prolong life for those infected with HIV--even at the drastically subsidized rates that some companies have promised--is farfetched. Beyond that, the illness and death of so many workers is draining what...
...family--Bill, his wife Melinda and his father Bill Sr.--that means sitting down with doctors, scientists and veteran philanthropists. It means performing the research and hard-nosed analysis that Gates and Stonesifer had done for years in developing software products, but applying it instead to eradicating malaria or polio in developing countries...