Doctor Zhivago - 30th Anniversary Edition David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak’s sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean’s gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean’s unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers–like Gone with the Wind before it and Titanic after. Sharif, who achieved stardom in Lean’s previous film, Lawrence of Arabia, mostly looks noble, but the supporting cast is spiky: Rod Steiger as a fat-cat monster, Tom Courtenay as a self-righteous revolutionary, and Klaus Kinski and Alec Guinness in smaller roles. Geraldine Chaplin, in her adult debut, plays the doctor’s compliant wife. Robert Bolt’s screenplay won one of the film’s five Oscars , with another going to perhaps the most immediately recognizable element of the movie: Maurice Jarre’s romantic music, with its hugely popular “Lara’s Theme” weaving in and out of a swooning score. –Robert Horton
Customer Review: Sweeping historical epic
A sweeping portayal of love and betrayal in the chaos of the Russian revolution. One of the great epics.

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CDC Disease Detectives Highlight Findings from Recent Investigations
56th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference…

Survey: American Public Wants Electronic medical Records But Only With Privacy Safeguards
The American public believes strongly that electronic medical records can make the difference between life and death in emergencies, new research being released today shows. Nearly three out of four Americans (72%) say they favor the establishment of a nationwide electronic information exchange that would allow a patient’s health information to be shared with authorized individuals quickly, privately, and securely via the Internet. However, ensuring patient privacy and control over their…

JAMA: Physician Pay-for-Performance Programs May Produce Little Gain in Quality
Paying clinicians to reach a common, fixed performance target may produce little gain in overall quality, and may largely reward those with higher performance at baseline, according to a study in the October 12 issue of JAMA.

The Best health System In the World? US Patients Pay More But Get Less
One-third of patients with health problems in the United States report experiencing medical, medication, or test errors, the highest rate of any nation in a new Commonwealth Fund international survey. Assessing health care access, safety, and care coordination in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the survey found that while no one nation was best or worst overall, the United States stood out for high error rates, inefficient coordination…

State of Childhood Asthma, United States: 1980-2005
A new report on childhood asthma released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that death rates for asthma among children under age 18 have declined since 1999…

New Report Finds Pain Affects Millions of Americans
One in four U.S. adults say they suffered a day-long bout of pain in the past month, and one in 10 say the pain lasted a year or more, according to the government’s annual,…

GM UAW Reach Tentative health Care Agreement
General Motors and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative health care agreement.

CDC’s Advisory Committee Recommends “Shingles” Vaccination
Atlanta The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a federal panel of immunization experts, has recommended people age 60 and older receive a new vaccine to prevent herpes zoster, or shingles, a condition that often leads to debilitating chronic pain…

Overall Infant Mortality Rate in United States Largely Unchanged: Rates Among Black Women More than Twice that of White Women
The infant mortality rate in the United States in 2004 was 6.78 infant (under 1 year of age) deaths per 1,000 live births, not significantly different from the rate of 6.84 in 2003, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

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