Better Emergency Medical Assistance Should Be Provided At Marathons
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...eir exceptional contribution to science. The Dutch minister of Science & Education Loek Hermans will hand the awards in The Hague on january 30th 2001. The NWO/SPINOZA Award is the highest scientific honour in the Netherlands and is increasingly being seen as the "Dutch Nobel Prize". The Award, which this y...South African MRC hosts the African branch office of EDCTP Secretariat
...mbi, High Representative of the EDCTP and ex-prime minister of Mozambique. Acting President of the SA MRC, Prof. Emeritus W. Pick said that "the MRC is pleased with the outcome of the bidding process. It is a great honour for South Africa and the MRC. We are particularly pleased as the decision of the Assembl...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
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...trons the power to close unclean wards; and health minister John Reid is now considering proposals to charge hospital bosses with corporate manslaughter if patients die from infections acquired in hospital. But the focus on pleasing the public means these policies are missing the point, states the editorial. ...