TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)

Tobacco costs less in developing countries than in '92, creating a potential public health disaster, the World Health Organization said.

Heart attack patients who take aspirin before taking clot-busting drugs are more likely to survive than those who take the drugs in reverse order, Israeli researchers said.

Kids who live in areas with high levels of gun ownership may have a greater risk of unintentional death, a Harvard study showed.

A Maryland law passed in '88 banning "Saturday night special" handguns helped cause a 9% drop in gun-related murders in 10 years, Johns Hopkins University found.

French scientists developed a test for rape …