In the future, Medicare officials coldstarting joining discussions between the FDA and companies how to plan final-stage trials to demonstrate cost effectiveness as well as efficacy.
Research into seabed minerals has a long and slightly conspiratorial history, starting in the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union surveying the oceans ahead of possible future conflict.
In Russia, it is starting to look more like a Cold War reset than the modern political and economic reset Russia and the United States have been trying for over the last several years.
These stories, and others concerning extraordinary feats in extreme cold, at great depths underwater, in sporting arenas and in outer space, are the starting points for Dr Ashcroft's careful explanations of how the human body copes at the limits of endurance.