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Shortage of medical isotopes a concernBoston (UPI) Sep 8, 2010 A global shortage of radioactive isotopes used in medical scans and treatments could jeopardize patient care and drive up healthcare costs, scientists say. The warning was delivered in a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, a society release said. "Although the public may not be fully aware, we are in the midst of a global shortage of medical and other isotopes," Robert Atcher, director off the National Isotope Development Center at the Los Alamos N ... read more |
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College Park, Md. (UPI) Aug 17, 2010 Deflation is coming and Americans should be alarmed. Many, though hardly all, prices are falling. Government regulations, subsidies and sanctioned monopolies make some price increases inevitable - the world may end before doctors' visits, prescription drugs, college tuition, and cable TV rates stop rising. For now, U.S. President Barack Obama has legislated higher car prices and ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2010Sludge-blocked roads are keeping urgent food and medicine from reaching survivors of deadly mudslides in northwest China, officials said Monday, as rescuers ended the search for hundreds still missing. Thousands of soldiers sent to Zhouqu, a remote town in Gansu province flattened by landslides over a week ago, have stopped digging for bodies to prevent an outbreak of disease, the local gove ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 14, 2010Heavy rains triggered landslides Saturday that left at least 38 missing in southwest China, state media said, adding misery to a nation already battling with huge floods and a massive mudslide that has claimed over 1,200 lives. Landslides destroyed hospital buildings in Wenchuan county, the epicentre of an earthquake in May 2008 that left nearly 87,000 dead or missing, the official Xinhua ne ... more |
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Rains bring new misery to China mudslide townZhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 Heavy rains on Thursday compounded the misery of a Chinese town devastated by mudslides that have killed 1,144 people, with new floods hampering relief efforts and the stench of death pervasive. Thousands of soldiers and rescuers battled to clear roads blocked by cascades of mud and sludge unleashed by storms overnight, complicating the task of getting food, water and medicine to people in desperate need. Six hundred residents are still missing after the disaster in Zhouqu, a remote town in the ... read more |
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