1. Medical science faces the challenge of conquering the many diseases which still attack human beings.
    医学界面临着征服那些侵害人体的多种疾病的挑战。

2. Many thousands of prisoners remember with gratitude the Red Cross food parcels, the warm clothing, the books and the medical supplies that were sent to them.
    成千上万的战俘现在仍感激红十字会曾为他们送去食品、御寒衣、书籍及药品。

3. Medical records are used to make a whole host of decisions about you that aren't related to your health.
    医疗档案被用来做出很多与你相关的决定，而这些决定却与你的健康无关。

4. Your date of birth, Social Security Number, credit and medical histories.
    出生日期、社会保障号、信用记录和病史。

5. Recently the New York Animal Medical Centre made a study of 132 cats over a period of five months.
    最近，纽约动物医疗中心对132只猫进行了为期5个月的综合研究。

6. One woman's doctor told her she was not at risk for AIDS because she was married and didn't use drugs. Such misinformation plagues the medical establishment. According to the Centers for Disease Control, women will soon make up 80 percent of those di
    一位妇女的医生对她说她不存在染上艾滋病的危险，因为她已经结婚，而且不吸毒。这类错误观念困扰着医疗机构。根据疾病控制中心的预测，女性将占感染艾滋病毒人口的80%。

7. Open-heart surgery at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (佛蒙特州) used to cost patients an average of $26,300. Today it's $3,000 less.
    在位于佛蒙特州的医疗中心医院，过去开胸手术的平均费用是26,300美元，如今减少了3,000美元。

8. One HMO was threatening to move its heart-surgery patients from Medical Center Hospital to a different hospital, if the Medical Center Hospital didn't get its costs down.
    一家保健组织甚至威胁说，如果医疗中心医院再不降低成本，它就要将其心脏手术病人转出该医院。

9. Of those who use this information, nearly 20 percent… do not inform their employees that their medical records have been used for such purposes."
    那些利用这种信息的人中，约20%的人……不会告诉雇员他们的医疗档案曾被用于此种目的。

10. One health official recommends that when you sign a medical form you change it to make it clear "that you do not consent to having information re-released or sold to a second party without your direct, written consent".
    一位卫生官员建议，当填写医疗表格时，你可改变一下，清楚地表明"你不同意在没有你的直接书面同意的情况下将你的信息泄露或出卖给第二方"。