Word: program
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...sour cream, butter and bacon bits. But you and I both know that French fries, which are soaked in fat, are not the kind of vegetables we need. Just look at the latest results, reported last week, of the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing research program that is tracking the health habits of more than 120,000 nurses. Researchers determined that women who daily consumed at least 400 micrograms of folic acid--one of the B vitamins--in either leafy green vegetables or multivitamin pills reduced their risk of colon cancer as much as 75% over 15 years. Before...
There's a scary moment during tonight's WCW Thunder wrestling program: a referee collapses and is rushed to the hospital. He's not part of the show. He's a football ref, and he's in a commercial touting University of North Carolina Health Care. Channel surf in Raleigh-Durham and you can see an artsy black-and-white ad featuring a country singer who doesn't have the usual complaints of "heartbreak"--brought to you by the WakeMed hospital's new Heart Center in Raleigh. Or a Duke ad--the sort of tasteful, care-focused spot...
...like to treat everybody," says Joanne Kurtzberg, the cord-blood-program director. "But Duke is not going to let me practice here if all I do is lose money...
...find the money to save these young lives, Kurtzberg is always searching for ways to cut treatment costs. She and her staff spend long hours on the phone each day trying to wring money out of insurance companies. But the bottom line for the cord program is not healthy, which means constant battles with Duke's bureaucracy as well. "I'm not fighting for me to take a vacation to China," says Kurtzberg, who puts in 100-hour workweeks. "I'm fighting for the patient. But this administration has gotten much more business oriented...
...Duke Clinic, Dr. Ralph Snyderman is making rounds. That would be nothing special if he didn't run the place. Snyderman is chancellor of Duke University Medical Center, so for him to be looking in on patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive-care ward soon...