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191 nations accelerate limits on threats to ozone

OTTAWA: A deal by 191 nations to eliminate ozone-depleting substances 10 years ahead of schedule is a “pivotal moment” in the fight against global warming, Environment Minister John Baird of Canada said Saturday.
Delegates at a UN conference in Montreal struck the deal late on Friday. The agreement will phase out production and use of […]

Doctors bring young cancer patients’ eggs to maturity

LYON, France (AP) Doctors have removed eggs from young female cancer patients and Д for the first time Д brought the eggs to maturity before freezing them, giving the girls a better chance to one day have children. Previously, scientists had thought viable eggs could only be obtained from girls who had undergone puberty. […]

Hewitt has brought NHS is ‘to its knees’ say doctors

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Doctors’ leaders claim Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has brought the NHS ‘to its knees’.
Top consultant Dr Jonathan Fielden said that recent cuts in services to restore financial equilibrium had been ‘excessive’.
Dr Fielden, who is chairman of the British Medical Assocaition’s consultants’ committee, made his remarks in a speech to the annual consultants’ […]

TB patient questions CDC’s actions

ATLANTA The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health incident in May said Friday he was tricked into a federal quarantine.
Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney, he would have gladly gone into isolation if health officials had asked him to. Instead, he said they asked him to swing by a New […]

Sputnik, with fear and wonder, lifted us into the future

Fifty years ago, before most people living today were born, the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik was heard round the world. It was the sound of wonder and foreboding. Nothing would ever be quite the same again Д in geopolitics, in science and technology, in everyday life and the capacity of the human species.
The Soviet Union […]