Michael Specter describes the way that sketchy private clinics in India are preying on people at risk of tuberculosis, and simultaneously undermining an under-resourced public-health system ("A Deadly Misdiagnosis," November 15th).
Duane W. Roller Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Michael Specter describes the way that sketchy private clinics in India are preying on people at risk of tuberculosis, and simultaneously undermining an under-resourced public-health system ("A Deadly Misdiagnosis," November 15th).
Mila Rosenthal Executive Director HealthRight International New York City Michael Specter describes the way that sketchy private clinics in India are preying on people at risk of tuberculosis, and simultaneously undermining an under-resourced public-health system ("A Deadly Misdiagnosis," November 15th).
A monthly time series of measles case notifications exists for Italy from 1949 onwards, although its usefulness is seriously undermined by extensive under-reporting which varies strikingly between regions, giving rise to the possibility of significant distortions in epidemic patterns seen in aggregated national data.
Efforts to fix the country's municipal pipes and treatment plants – damaged by the impact of a decade of sanctions and war – have been seriously undermined by chronic under-investment, frequent power shortages, lack of qualified personnel, illegal water tapping and acts of sabotage.
The evidence of improvements in diet, based on self-reported intake, is undermined by evidence of under-reporting of consumption.
Over the dissent of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who warned that the decision undermined "our role under the Constitution as the final arbiter of federal law," the court ruled in favor of a Minnesota man convicted of sexually abusing a child in 1996.
Yet, once the more general principle is accepted, it is reasonable to worry about whether antidiscrimination (and other) laws would be undermined, and equality under law subverted, by a flood of exceptions.
By promoting action as an integral component of the research process, and by not placing as much emphasis on publishing for example, the program essentially undermined the systems under which Northern researchers – and many Southern researchers – operated in which creating new knowledge through research and publication is seen as the means for scientific and professional advancement.
