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...recent investigation by the Sunday Times of London found that for a fee of as little as $225, British detective agencies routinely obtain medical records simply by phoning doctors' receptionists and pretending to be another doctor's secretary. Today a few thousand records may get tapped that way. The fear is that the proposed National Health Service network would multiply the problem. "If the receptionists of all Britain's 32,000 general practitioners have their systems linked up so that any of them can access all the information," says Anderson, "then you've had it. We will do whatever...
...being North Korea's long-standing ally, one last good-will supporter, and the only channel through which North Korea maintains contact with the outside world, has had a huge, if not dominating, impact on North Korea's policy-making. When the growth-oriented Chinese leaders helped South Korea obtain its separate seat in the United Nations in 1991, something which could have been a reason enough to provoke another serious dispute back then, North Korea, surprisingly, showed no resentment and remained silent. However, to hurriedly generalize such facts to arrive at a conclusion that China can shape North Korea...
...officials contacted the Red Cross to obtain approximately 100 cots for displaced students, according to Michael J. Chmura, news officer...
...result, say critics, patients will have to dip into their pockets to obtain the services they really need--or go without proper care. "You are going to see lower utilization of high-cost procedures, fewer lab tests, less radiology activity and a very noticeable drop in mental and behavioral health," says Elliot Pollack, an attorney with Pullman & Comley, a Connecticut firm that represents health-care providers such as Bridgeport Hospital. "Managed care has too much market power...
...response to the attack, the Clinton administration has decided to support a bill that will tighten the sanctions of the already existing U.S. embargo and suspend most air travel to the island. It has also prompted an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council in order to obtain a declaration of condemnation against the Cuban government's actions. The administration's response to the attack can only be termed as weak and hesitant. We call on the administration to reconsider and increase the pressure on the illegitimate Castro regime, which is the most oppressive this hemisphere has ever witnessed...