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AILING. CORINA MORARIU, 23, former No. 1 ranked women's doubles player and 1999 Wimbledon women's doubles champion with Lindsay Davenport; with a rare form of leukemia; in Florida. Doctors estimated that Morariu had been sick for months, even while playing the grueling WTA tour...
...more earnest is Waldman's beliefnet.com, which opened in January 2000 and hosts more than 1.7 million visitors monthly. There, I can flip through religions as though leafing through a newspaper. I can pray for sick children or spouses of other visitors or (knock on wood) request they pray for me. Questions? I can "Ask the Rabbi," "Ask the Imam" or "Ask Father Ted." Formerly an editor at US News and World Report, Waldman noticed that religion covers always sold well, yet there were no mass-market religion magazines. Half of an interfaith marriage, he was also inspired by personal...
Female sailors visited the sick bay aboard one of the U.S. Navy's ships nearly 10 times more than their male counterparts, a "startling difference" the Navy had not expected to see, according to a new study. "With a female-to-male visit ratio of more than 9 to 1, the conversion of a ship with an all-male crew to 10 percent female would essentially double the clinical workload of the ship's medical department," says the article in the latest issue of Military Medicine, a respected professional journal for U.S. military physicians...
...Navy dismissed the findings as an aberration. An earlier study involving four U.S. Navy ships found that women visited the sick bay 60 percent more often than men. That was a "significantly higher" rate for women, the earlier report said, but well below the order-of-magnitude difference detailed in the latest research...
...repair vessel based in Guam. Summer, who was the medical officer aboard the ship from 1996 to 1998. His research found that over a six-month period during his service aboard the Cable, "female crew members accounted for 72 percent of the total visits [to the ship's sick bay] while constituting only 22 percent of the crew...