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Perhaps most frustrating is the fact that it is fear rather than hope that dominates Jurassic Park. For while there are reasons for concern about where we are headed with genetic engineering and gene therapy, there are more reasons for excitement. As science slowly unravels the mysteries of heredity, medicine, agriculture and veterinary science will change for the better

The Health-Care Financing Administration, the folks in the U.S. federal medicare program, just issued a report stating that our collective bill for health care will hit $1.7 trillion US by the year 2000

In 1989 [Westley Allan Dodd], then 28 years old, confessed to authorities in the state of Washington that he had stabbed to death two brothers, Cole and William Neer. He also admitted repeatedly raping and then killing Lee Iseli. Lee Iseli was 4 years old. The Cole brothers were 10 and 11 when Dodd killed them

Sometimes, liver transplant surgery doesn't work. And it is not at all unusual for a second liver transplant to fail. But what was especially troubling about the death of this woman is that she died because she was a participant in a medical experiment

Is it morally right to keep a dead woman who is pregnant attached to life support machines in order to let her fetus live? A recent case in California shows that such a question is not hypothetical

Perhaps the most important tool we can borrow from our neighbors is the use of fixed overall budgets. Fixed budgets do have a price. They are likely to restrict access to specialists and expensive technology. But the tradeoff in terms of greater access to primary care and preventative services, which each of these countries displays, seems worth it. For until these countries decided to place caps on their health-care budgets, they were burdened, as we continue to be, with spiraling inflation in prices and cost. The rest of the industrialized world knows that cost containment requires governments to set fixed caps on how much money can be spent on health care each year