Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...dren in their community and press for policies and resources that improve the health conditions in their communities. Writing in the supplement, Kaczorowski, David Satcher, M.D. the former U.S. Surgeon General and senior advisor to URMC on community health, and David Topa, M.D., a former pediatric resident at ...It takes a village to improve the health of children
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... overall time and cost saving and reduced required resources without compromising level of service. Its assistance managing operations design contributed an additional savings. Eli Lilly: Antifolates are among the most promising potential anticancer agents but they carry varied risks of toxicity; although ra...New health information resource from Tufts for Asian-language speakers
... following a Tufts tradition providing electronic resources in our international community." "SPIRAL provides a central source of health information for Asian Americans and their physicians/caregivers. We've selected the Web sites with the best medical information and we'll continue to provide access to mor...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
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...nts a joint effort by global space agencies to put resources at the service of rescue authorities responding to major natural or man-made disasters. To date the Charter has been activated more than 70 times. Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the Charter was initiated ...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
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