Astronauts Begin Medical Research Aboard Columbia
Space shuttle Columbia crew opened the lab and began more than a dozen physiology experiments to study how weightlessness affects the human body. The $138 million program includes biomedicine plants and animals, with tests on rats and fish embryos to help future long duration missions and life aboard the international space station.
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Panel backs two shot prelude to polio oral vaccine
An advisory panel recommended infants receive two injections of a weaker polio vaccine before the potent oral dose to reduce vaccine related polio risk. The plan awaits CDC final approval and would not start before 1997.
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Wyeth Lederle
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Albert Sabin
Salk
World Health Organization
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