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...Besides Cuba’s questionable success in reducing infant mortality, health care in other respects is decidedly lacking. Cubans are indeed granted free diagnosis, but they lack free care. Cuba lacks the resources to treat its patients, who are expected to supply their own pillows and water during hospital visits. These hospitals are in decaying condition, a fact made more appalling by its contrast to the exemplary hospitals which only foreigners have access...
...Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and voting to eliminate a two million dollar subsidy for the mink industry. Obama, meanwhile, has championed bans on horse slaughter and dog fighting, and surprised a Las Vegas town hall crowd in mid-January by telling them, “I think how we treat our animals reflects how we treat each other, and it’s very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.” And Clinton has consistently opposed the slaughter of sick ‘downer’ cattle...
...learned that lesson early in life. When a business trip brought her to Washington, D.C. one Halloween, she decided our trick-or-treat plans lacked panache. I found myself in a Dalmatian suit following around my aunt—an unmistakable Cruella D’Ville—as she sang numbers from the Disney flick at one house after another...
...State legislators agree. More and more have introduced or passed laws to mandate that doctors and hospitals educate expectant parents about the possibility of cord-blood donation. Doctors can now treat some 70 diseases using stem cells harvested from cord blood, and states including Oklahoma, Michigan and Arkansas are considering bills to fund the establishment of additional local public cord-blood banks and collection centers. "Ideally, we want people to see this as a public service akin to blood or organ donation," says Oklahoma state senator Jay Paul Gumm, who has sponsored such legislation. "Something that they automatically think...
...area of cardiology and vascular research," Vanessa Aristede, director of corporate communications at Pfizer, told TIME. In defending his decision to become a spokesperson for Lipitor, Jarvik last month said in a statement on his company's website, "I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science. I have the training, experience and medical knowledge to understand the conclusions of the extensive clinical trials that have been conducted to study the safety and effectiveness of Lipitor...