Long-time suburban U.S. representative Phil Crane is by far the biggest scofflaw in the House of Representatives when it comes to disclosing the occupations and employers of his contributors to the Federal Election Commission, according to the July 25 issue of “Money in Politics Alert,” published by the Center for Responsive Politics. Contrary to federal election law, he has disclosed the information for only 14 percent of the money he received for 1999 and early 2000. The next least compliant house candidate has disclosed the information for 63 percent of the contributions he’s received.
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If these doctors remove 10 percent of my appendix and say I’m cured I’ll sue! The following news was in a recent press release from Medem, an “e-health network” founded by the AMA and medical-specialty societies: “Ten percent of physicians are using e-mail on a daily or weekly basis to communicate with their patients, refuting the widely held perception that physicians are not Internet-savvy.” Last time I checked, 100 percent minus 10 percent equals 90 percent of physicians who are not “Internet savvy” by this criterion.
“Even if all the antiretroviral medications were free of charge [in Africa], only a few thousand of the millions of infected and yet-to-be infected would safely benefit,” writes Richard Marlink, in the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (July). Over 90 percent of Africans with HIV don’t even know they’re infected, he points out, and “in many areas of Africa basic medical care is scant,” and the resources for HIV case management, such as laboratories and drugs for related infections, are scarce. “Both Africans and non-Africans must define their ‘tribe’ more broadly than they have…in the past.”
