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...whether human beings - and more pointedly, doctors - have the right to help others die has been in the public discourse since before the birth of Christ. The Hippocratic Oath, which scholars estimate was written in the fourth century B.C., includes the unambiguous statement: I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan. (The oath, which most modern doctors do not take, also includes a promise not to perform abortions.) (See the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs...
...persuade any of them to share my rental house in the city's walled Old Town. If they had heard of Cartagena at all, it was only as the backdrop of the classic 1980s romantic caper Romancing the Stone, a place of corrupt juntas and bodice-ripper-reading drug dealers - a parody turned deadly serious by four decades of civil war, Pablo Escobar and cocaine cartels. But what my friends - who spent their vacations standing in line at Space Mountain or screaming down the Atlantis waterslide - failed to realize is that Cartagena has become one of the Caribbean's most...
...raise safety standards, increase punishments and institute a system of risk evaluation that includes monitoring 500,000 companies, the state-run Xinhua news service reported on Feb. 28. Responsibility for food safety will be divided among the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Food and Drug Administration and the ministries of health, agriculture, commerce and industry. Such division among several government bureaus has long been considered a shortcoming of the Chinese safety system, as various agencies have battled for control and potential revenue from fines. "It's a problem," says Hu Dinghuan, a researcher with...
...Panama upon consuming cough medicine that contained toxic diethylene glycol from China, the mainland's food- and product-safety problems became an international concern. Adulterated wheat gluten from China was blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America in 2007. That year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned several types of Chinese seafood that repeatedly tested positive for banned veterinary drugs. (Read "China's Consumers: Not Ready to Save the World...
...While the latest laws have been touted as a tough approach to food safety, China has already shown that it will take extreme measures against prominent violators. In 2007 the country executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies. In January, a Chinese court sentenced two people to death in the melamine milk-poisoning scandal. But China's health ministry acknowledged over the weekend that the food-safety situation remains grim...