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...compliance with governmental regulations, UHS has been administering shots only to those who fall into the “high risk” category as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This includes pediatric patients, pregnant women, patients over the age of 65 and those with chronic and pulmonary diseases—a group that is highly unlikely to include students...
...more than a few weeks shy of the typical 40-week-long pregnancy. Premature birth--by which doctors mean at least three weeks early--is the leading cause of developmental disability in children, including cerebral palsy and mental retardation, according to Dr. Eve Lackritz of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. It is also a significant cause of blindness, chronic lung problems and birth defects...
Those who will be given priority when flu shots become available Thursday include people over the age of 65, infants between the ages of 6 and 23 months, pregnant women and those with underlying chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, cancer or lung problems...
...reflective of the real world, where someone might suffer from arthritis and heart disease and stomach problems all at once. Figuring out which drugs truly are safe and effective--and under what circumstances--is bound to become more complex as the population ages and more medications are developed for chronic conditions. Vioxx may be the biggest withdrawal of a drug in years, but it won't be the last. --With reporting by Unmesh Kher/New York
...those Oxford Group meetings that Houck befriended Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., a chronic drinker who would go on to co-found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in 1939. Houck joined the Oxford Group and became sober on Dec. 12, one day after Wilson did. Today, at 98, Houck is the only living person to have attended Oxford Group meetings with Wilson, who died...