Word: medicale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornwell's conclusion is that John Paul I died of a pulmonary embolism. (In 1978 the Vatican had said a heart attack was the cause.) His death apparently resulted from long-standing medical problems that were exacerbated by the early pressures of being Pope. Still, Rome may rue the day...
In New York City about 30 people have engaged in a symbolic hunger strike across the street from the United Nations. They were demanding U.N. condemnation of the crackdown in Beijing and the dispatch of medical workers and human-rights observers to China. Though many of the students in the...
Last week, as 11,000 physicians, scientists and health officials gathered in Montreal for the fifth International Conference on AIDS, evidence was building that Mason could be right. While AIDS is still cutting lives short, early intervention with new drugs is lengthening the time between diagnosis and death and offering...
The experiment has been called a potential "cornerstone in biology." Maybe so, but it will hardly make genetic engineering a kitchen-table technology. Advocates of gene transplants have long pointed to the potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already...
What is chilling about many of the young criminals is that they show no remorse or conscience, at least initially. Youths brag about their exploits and shrug off victims' pain. A Chicago case in which four teenagers raped and killed a medical student was solved because of good police work...