Gargantuan US child health study - all take? What will the US government owe the hundreds of thousands of Americans it will swab, prick, track and trace over the next 21 years, in the largest children's health study ever? So far, the answer from the... ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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