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...economic aid or threats of economic sanctions, have been unsuccessful?and officials in Washington and Tokyo have often expressed frustration that China hasn't used its considerable leverage to force concessions from Pyongyang. North Korea depends heavily upon China, its largest trading partner and strongest ally, to keep its sick economy on life support. China supplies about half of the $1.8 billion in aid the regime receives annually, including virtually...
...stakes couldn't be higher. With so many sick patients, so few doctors and the ever present risk that misused medicine will spawn resistant strains, promoters of ARVs in Africa can only hope that doctors and traditional healers will learn to get along. "There are so many who said, 'You're crazy to be giving ARVs in Africa,'" says Dr. Michael Rich, the Rwanda director of Partners in Health, an aid group that pioneered community health care. "If we're not successful right now, then in 10 years people are going to say, 'See I told you so, it doesn...
Henschke argues that the J.A.M.A. findings are more scientifically rigorous than previous research because the doctors started following participants before anyone knew who would become sick. (Other studies were so-called retrospective reports, which can lead investigators to jump to conclusions since they already know the outcome.) She and her colleagues are also trying to determine whether the experimental CT scans they used to find the tumors could help detect lung cancers in current and former smokers at a much earlier stage, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful treatment...
...billion bank bailout to stave off potential bankruptcy. "If the situation had been different, I might have had more time to ease into the job. But I was forced into the middle of a bad moment," Elkann says. "The company was being mismanaged. The family leadership was aging and sick. The financial community didn't support us anymore. At that point, you have the choice...
Orah S. Platt, a professor of pediatrics and master of the Castle Society, of which Magoon was a member, wrote in an e-mail, “He would have been one of those doctors everybody wanted—[he] wanted to figure out why they were sick and fix them, to be the one to break bad news, to celebrate good times, to advocate for them, to keep them healthy...