Word: safely
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...Cross has an ethical responsibility to ensure that the blood it gives to patients is safe. Lives depend on this issue; it is not trivial. If this requires treating some people differently, perhaps even unfairly, it is unfortunate. Yet, it seems to me to be much more important that everyone receiving blood be protected from diseases than that everyone should have an equal chance to donate and feel warm and fuzzy inside. Giving blood isn't exactly a fundamental right. (I double checked the constitution to be sure.) Let's just hope that no one convinces the administration to throw...
Although he had signed a form holding him accountable for potential damage to the wheelchair, Saldivar assumed the chair would be safe left unguarded, he said in an interview yesterday...
Unlike today's breed of safe-bet directors, Stone is the guy who tries things. He works fast and hard: U Turn, the dark, barking melodrama that opens this week, is his 11th feature in 11 years. He godfathers other films (The People vs. Larry Flint, The Joy Luck Club), dabbles in TV (Wild Palms), keeps stoking his legend. A Child's Night Dream should do that: it's a big, toxic dose of undiluted Oliver. But don't take his word for him. Check out Jane Hamsher's funny, true-sounding Killer Instinct (Broadway Books; 288 pages; $25), about...
...year-old grandmother and professor of nursing is not crazy. She is part of a group of 50 doctors, nurses and health advocates who are willing to give their bodies to science to help test whether a live but genetically weakened strain of the aids virus is safe enough to be used as a vaccine...
...determine how effective a vaccine is in humans without putting some humans at risk. The situation with AIDS is especially frustrating because the safest preparations tested so far don't seem to work that well--at least on animals--and the most effective ones are not that safe. In fact, because the AIDS virus mutates so rapidly, would-be vaccines carry the risk of causing the very disease they are meant to prevent...