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If a price doubles, is it 200 per cent higher? No, it’s 100 per cent higher.
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If a price doubles, is it 200 per cent higher? No, it’s 100 per cent higher.
The British media hasn’t picked up on the tale of Senator Jon Kyl (pictured) who during budget debates in the US Senate earlier this month about the healthcare provider Planned Parent
Clusters of anything – suicides, birth defects, diseases – are a magnet to journalists.
Is obesity in the United States going up, down, or nowhere much at all?
American cardiologists are aghast at the results of a survey of 1,933 people to measure how many matched all seven co
Is happiness U-shaped? Everywhere but in the US, it seems.
Anti-abortion campaigners in New York have recently been shocked by the discovery that 41 per cent of pregnancies in the city end in terminations.
How private will the results of the 2011 Census be? Officially, privacy is absolutely guaranteed under the Census Acts of 1920 and 1990.
More than three quarters of US medical students believe that Western medicine would benefit from integrating more complementary and alternative therapies and ideas.