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A popular hospital computer system raises the risk of 22 different – and potentially deadly – drug-prescribing errors, research shows. The most common source of hospital errors comes when doctors prescribe drugs for a patient. Mistakes can be deadly. That’s why most hospitals bought computer systems designed to make sure …

WASHINGTON – Experimental interceptor bases in Alaska (search) and California can be made ready to fire at incoming ballistic missiles within minutes or hours, the chief of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (search) said Wednesday. The report from Lt. Gen. Henry A. “Trey” Obering III (search) suggests technology of the …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s parliament easily voted down a bill Monday calling for a national referendum on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s (search) Gaza withdrawal plan, rejecting the last-ditch attempt to torpedo the plan and sparking settler threats of civil war. With the referendum’s failure and the expected approval of the 2005 …