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...know how people end up that way. There is a theory that says people who don't have that emotional connection with others when they're young don't develop an aversion to hurting others. I'm from a family of six boys, so I know what fighting is among siblings. What you learn is that if you're fighting with a younger sibling and you squeeze him too hard, he screams, and you stop. Dogs learn the same thing. When big dogs play with small dogs, they learn to restrain their strength. If you don't learn that, then...
...nerves, the unfamiliarity and the urge to impress, few people do themselves justice on the first day of a new job. When it comes to doctors starting out in emergency medicine, though, are patients' lives being put at risk? According to research from Imperial College London, the death rate among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August - the day, traditionally, that newly graduated doctors take up their posts - was, on average, 6% higher than for those admitted the last Wednesday in July. An influx of new medical staff, in other words, just might be very, very...
...week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven-day period, when researchers controlled for the patients' age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems, the odds of dying was found to be 6% higher for those admitted on the Wednesday in August. Among so-called medical admissions - all those not suffering from cancer or requiring surgery - the odds were 8% higher. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
About 40 million doses of the vaccine should be ready by mid-October, with an additional 10 to 20 million doses added each week through the end of the year. The 2009 H1N1 vaccine will be free, with public distribution in most areas. Among those the government has prioritized for the voluntary vaccine: all school-age children, pregnant women, caretakers of young babies and people with chronic health conditions that could weaken their immune systems. In Spokane, Springer is carefully tracking the numbers to see how the illness behaves before local school children have a chance to be vaccinated...
...whole species, to “go enhance.” But he issues a warning: “We’ll never feel enhanced… When fiction goes real, reality will need a more resistant strain of fiction.”This is why Powers, among his likeminded contemporaries, is worth reading. Time and time again, he provides us with more and more resistant strains of fiction. The humanities, resisting science, seem to want to hold it back so that the old truths hold. Powers, on the other hand, is positively straining to see what?...