In hopes of slowing the epidemic, Dr. Arata Kochi, director of WHO's global TB program, has been promoting DOTS therapy (directly observed treatment, short-course), whereby health-care workers watch patients take their medicine completely and correctly.

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The Cleveland Clinic's LeGrand recommends using case studies instead of mere lectures, and getting other doctors to watch closely how pain specialists prescribe medicine.

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Published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine it suggests that compared to people who watch no TV, those who spend a lifetime average of watching six hours a day can expect to live nearly five years less.

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