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...Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend - oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail...
...change the healthcare paradigm to include integrative medicine and promote patient advocacy. In my mind, this is going to be the wave of the future. Integrative therapists will incorporate the doctors, the nurses, and patients all in one. We're trying to make it part of the treatment in a hospital so that it's effortless, you don't have to ask for it. We are now trying to build a critical mass of integrative therapists. We are working through the nursing community, the yoga community. Right now there are 100 therapists being trained. And there is a pilot program...
...zones," off limits to everyone except the U.N. and the Red Cross. A recently disclosed proposal to set up "welfare villages" where up to 200,000 IDPs could be kept for as long as three years was condemned by human-rights groups and opposition leaders; but this kind of treatment is a reality for the 13,000 people already in the camps. A Jan. 21 memo by UNHCR states that the restrictions on movement in these camps do not meet humanitarian standards, so the agency is trying to negotiate with the government to improve conditions. Neither the U.N. nor other...
...drug costs and changing reimbursement procedures. One proposal would have Medicare Advantage providers compete for government contracts for the first time, a move projected to save $130 billion over 10 years. Another would be to stop paying for individual procedures and instead pay one lump sum for an entire treatment. Savings would not appear immediately, but over 20 years, they could total in the hundreds of billions of dollars...
With an estimated 300 million Web users--the most in the world--China is struggling with an epidemic of Internet obsession among its youth. Since the establishment in 2004 of the country's first Internet-addiction-treatment facility, the China Youth Mental Health Center, more than 3,000 patients have been treated there. (See 10 things to do in Beijing...