Word: treatments
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Chavunduka was released after six days in captivity, and went to England for medical treatment. Earlier this year, he was chosen to be one of the 24 Nieman Fellows--mid-career journalists from across the world who study at Harvard for a year--and left Zimbabwe on the condition that he return for trial...
...Nieman fellows asked Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine to send a letter to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe protesting Chavunduka's treatment, according to Nieman Foundation Curator Bill Kovach...
...failing to provide adequate care. Along with legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more...
...chair JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R., Wis.), Senator JAMES INHOFE (R., Okla.) and others want to know is, Has Rubin been engaging in "threatening and harassing" telephone calls and e-mails to the residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste- treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under fire for harassing...
Sources: Pew Research Center, AAP Newsfeed, Washington Post, N.Y. Times, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, CampusCruiser.com