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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The administration's drive to fix our ailing health-care system has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent months. The momentum the president had built with his stirring speech to Congress last September about the importance of securing universal access at affordable prices to a basic package of health care has been frittered away

How dangerous does an experiment have to be before you lose the right to choose to participate in it? That is the question facing the 11,000 women who are subjects in a path-breaking national study to see whether a drug, tamoxifen, can prevent breast cancer

Not long ago, I spent the morning getting depressed by Tim Wirth. Wirth was depressing me because that is part of his job as United States undersecretary of state for global affairs. It is Wirth's sworn duty to scare the bejeebers out of you and me about

[Tim Wirth] was depressing me because that is part of his job as undersecretary of state for global affairs. It is Wirth's sworn duty to scare the bejeebers out of you and me about the fact that there are way too many people living on the Earth

DeWayne Murphy is 33 years old. There is a good chance he will not live to see 34. He is dying of heart failure. Murphy need not die. If he receives a heart transplant, there is a very good chance he will live a long life

DeWayne Murphy is 33 years old. There is a good chance he will not live to see 34. He is dying of heart failure. Murphy need not die. If he receives a heart transplant, there is a very good chance he will live a long life

If so, the transplant would benefit women who cannot make their own eggs, either because they have reached menopause or because they have some disorder or disease that makes their eggs abnormal. [Roger Gosden] says he has successfully transplanted fetal ovaries in mice and that he will soon be ready to try the technique using human fetal eggs

One method is to "urge" those at risk of giving birth to children with problems, such as mothers who have hepatitis, to seek the permission of the state prior to procreation. Another is to "encourage" mothers found to be carrying children with birth defects such as spina bifida, deafness, mental retardation or AIDS to terminate their pregnancies

Well, life may well be better for the average Chinese citizen than at any time since the Opium Wars, and things may be a lot more stable then they were when - during the heady days of the Cultural Revolution under the watchful eye of Mao - the Red Guard was rousting the ideologically deviant out of their beds for a mandatory trip to a labor camp. But contrary to the ambassador's opinion, individual choice is not doing well and will take a precipitous nose dive on the diplomatic human-rights scoreboard if the authorities implement a policy of policing the bedroom and the obstetrics ward with an eye toward improving the species