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...surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with SARS, Dr. Li shakes his head. "All we have is our hands," he says. Even those go without basic protection against the virus that causes SARS. As the pathogen migrated from big cities to provinces like Hebei, the government sent Li boxes of latex gloves?all right-handed. He forces one onto his left hand and asks, "How am I supposed to work like this...
...Calcite in Gongdong's water causes kidney stones in residents and a lack of iodine in their diet makes goiters common. For the past six years, the French aid agency M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) has trained the village doctors and midwives to treat minor injuries and illnesses with a basic stock of drugs, while referring serious cases to a township hospital. In addition, MSF introduced a payment scheme that seemed to work: it requires each village to classify locals according to whether they can pay for all, half or none of their medicine. Proceeds from drug sales help subsidize primary...
...system eliminates the incentive for doctors to jack up medicine prices to cover their expenses. Yet the project costs MSF just 25? per person per year?a tiny investment that has brought basic health care to some 8,500 people. "We wanted to create a grassroots example of a practical program that works," says Yves Marchandy, who runs the program. But the project is scheduled to end in June. Local authorities don't plan to continue it because they don't have the budget. "The hospital authorities are overly focused on turning a profit," says Marchandy...
...Some of the restrictions are fairly onerous,” says Assistant Provost for Science Policy Kathleen M. Buckley. “They are in conflict with what we define to be our basic academic values...
...don’t think there are any reasons to classify basic research,” he says. Instead, Marburger says it is the methods of preparing potentially harmful biological agents, known as the “craft models,” he would like to see protected...