uh, worms induce high eosinophil counts, and can contribute to ecsema, not to mention asthma, malnutrition, anemia etc. but then I never saw a case of ecsema in Africa either.
and of course the question is: which worms?
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how a few patients cost one quarter of the health care bill.
yeah, they won't take their pills and end up sick. It's social problems and isolation....not discussed: Family breakdown, lack of education, and drugs that are behind the family breakdown.
a lot of the preventive medicine things they mention was what we did in the IHS, with local people trained as tribal health workers to check in on the patients...
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Mammograms do save lives.
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Marriage is good for you.
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destroying the "eat breakfast if you are dieting" myth
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The emphasis on women as men (i.e. that they have to work outside the home): another undiscussed reason that the elderly don't get care. NYTimes discusses "strain" from the modern world on Hispanic caregivers.
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cancer drug taxol might help cut spinal cords to regenerate.
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and the science headline of the week:
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