51.   The law offers special treatment for Cuban emigres, but only after they have been in the United States for one year.

52.   The government released a statement last week accepting the essence of a court ruling that public hospitals must offer drug treatment to new mothers infected with the HIV virus.

53.   The panel said physicians offering fertility treatment are not ethically obliged to treat everyone who seeks help.

54.   The new technologies appear to offer faster treatments, less exposure to radiation than with conventional X-rays and, in some cases, less pain and suffering.

55.   The programs offer addicts clean needles at counseling centers, where they are also offered drug treatment.

56.   The priority drugs were defined as providing at least a modest advance over existing therapy or as offering treatment for conditions that had no alternative treatment.

57.   Yet only municipal hospitals offer treatment to every uninsured person who shows up.

58.   All current cancer treatments are offered including medical, radiation and clinical trials, she added.

59.   But Okun said the failure of injection rooms to offer any treatment for the addiction -- which is the case in Germany -- was the real problem.

60.   Doctors and nurses look after patients, but do not offer any treatment or perform operations.