Russian medicine on capitalist path
A first class private health-care system sprouting between the weathered cracks of the fifth class public system : this is the future of medicine in Russia. For, Russians who can afford to sidestep
A first class private health-care system sprouting between the weathered cracks of the fifth class public system : this is the future of medicine in Russia. For, Russians who can afford to sidestep
Danish scientists said that they have discovered new evidence linking cosmic radiation to which regular fliers are exposed, with leukemia. But they stressed that the number of leukemia cases among
Japan is considering banning the importation fo beef and related products from the European Union as a precaution against mad cow disease, an Agriculture Ministry official
The US Department of Agriculture has announced final adoption of the first standards the federal government has ever imposed for the labeling and processing of organic
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The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, after nine years of orbiting the Earth for studies of space, was deliberately steered into the atmosphere, where it burned, broke up and fell into a remote area of
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In three years of local epidemiology, Dr. Paul Pronyk has joined the helpless consensus on AIDS in Africa: that prevention may contain history's worst pandemic, but that the millions swept up in it
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