"Your Honor, just to be clear, he won't mention AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis, " Mr. Brodsky said.

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It hasn't received FDA approval here for tuberculosis.

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Meantime, a downtown medical college run by Dr. Freida Law, a pediatrician schooled in Australia, tries to put students in clinical settings from the outset, to foster appreciation of patient care and suffering. (Li hasn't forgotten his father's struggle with tuberculosis.) Again the emphasis is on contact with the wider world, using the Li Foundation's global medical research ties as a bridge.

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"I don't understand why they don't accredit Hinduja, " said Soumya Swaminathan, director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, part of the government's network of biomedical research institutions.

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