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...ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were temporarily blinded by an improperly marked drug that local doctors thought was for a gynecological complaint. It turned out to be veterinary worm medicine...
Judge Roger Miner, writing for the Second Circuit, uncomprehendingly admits the reality of the nightmare: "It seems clear that some physicians [in the Netherlands] practice nonvoluntary euthanasia, although it is not legal to do so." Well, why would such things occur in the Netherlands? Are the people there morally inferior to Americans? Are the doctors somehow crueler and more uncaring...
Strangely enough, while networks are quick to see and cure these problems for headache remedies, no one realizes that the same two side effects may occur with negative campaigning in the political process. if each side keeps decrying the other for being immoral, we may not be able to judge with perspective the acts committed. Former vice president Dan Quayle's incorrect spelling of potato (with an e) seems to be on the same level of immorality as Sen. Bob Packwood's (R-Wash.) sexual harassment. By portraying so much of the government as corrupt, negative campaigning can also...
...catastrophic brain damage that can occur with a STROKE may be prevented with a powerful new medication called citicoline. In a study, citicoline appeared to help injured membranes repair themselves...
Conjoined twins are a rare event in the world's delivery rooms. They occur about once in every 50,000 births, but 40% are stillborn, and, curiously, 70% are female. Conjoined twins are always identical: the product of a single egg that for some unknown reason failed to divide fully into separate twins during the first three weeks of gestation. In the U.S. there are perhaps 40 live cases each year; ordinary identical twins are 400 times as common...