About a week ago one of the commenters challenged me to do a post that looked at Russian health in more depth: not simply to look at the overall number of people being born or dying, as I have done repeatedly, but to look in more detail at how often people were getting sick and what they were being stricken with.

FORBES: Connect

There have been no clinical trials to assess the effect of higher doses, although two other studies done on less-sick patients might suggest the higher doses are problematic--one in 1998 for patients with cardiac disease and one last year for chronic kidney disease patients.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The editor of the Lancet, visiting her Home for the Dying in 1994, reported that stocks of medicine were insufficient, and that not enough was done to cure the sick or ease the pain of the dying.

ECONOMIST: Mother Teresa