Is modern medicine moving from treating disease to preventing disease?
Is modern medicine moving from treating disease to preventing disease?
Illness prevention is encouraged more now than it used to be, but the disparity between income groups in the U.S. means that fewer poor people know how to get and stay healthy. Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, talks about the issue.
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