Word: treatment
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...dispenses drugs with a studied seriousness. Since last year, he has prescribed 20 mg of zinc daily for about two weeks to children suffering from diarrhea. Throw in oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which has been the main weapon against diarrhea for the past few decades, and a treatment costs less than 30¢--affordable even to Sogola's desperately poor families...
...Americans." They are: ensuring that reform doesn't add to the federal deficit; creating an independent commission to bring Medicare costs under control; discouraging high-cost insurance plans by taxing them; and changing the incentives in medicine so that doctors and hospitals are paid not for how much treatment they give but for how well it works...
...those concepts would break the traditional fee-for-service model, in which the more treatment doctors and hospitals give, the more they get paid - regardless of whether what they are doing is necessary or even beneficial for the patient. And each is likely to draw heavy flak from health care providers who see their autonomy - and their incomes - in jeopardy...
Wastewater treatment is much more energy-intensive than composting, which needs little more than time (about a year) for complete decomposition and pathogen elimination. In Austin, Texas, a sustainably minded nonprofit called the Rhizome Collective succeeded this year in getting the city to approve what may be the first legal composting toilet in the U.S. "The hypocrisy is amazing," says Lauren Ross, 54, a civil engineer involved in Rhizome's four-year battle to get a permit. "The city will buy you a low-flow toilet, but they'll fight you all the way if you want to build...
...celebrations. The Dec. 5 outing will be only his second public appearance since being admitted to the hospital for what doctors said was a respiratory infection on September 19. The first was in mid-November for a religious ceremony at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, where he has been receiving treatment, during which he was confined to a wheelchair...