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Markel and colleagues divided the cities' interventions into three major categories: school closure, cancellation of public gatherings, and isolation and quarantine. During the 24 weeks researchers studied, there were 115,340 excess deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in 43 states, with a collective population of about 23 million. New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Quarantines Work Against Pandemics | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

But was the good mayor's ad hoc phrenology correct? Or was Schiller's fertile brain actually housed in another skull dug up almost a century later? Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller Code research project are now determined to find out. They will compare dna taken from the two skulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schiller Skull Mystery | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

The obvious question is, Why? Spouses share meals and a backyard, but the researchers found a much smaller risk of gaining weight - a 37% increase - when one spouse became obese. Siblings share genes, but their influence, too, was much smaller, increasing each other's risk 40%. Fowler believes the effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity Is Contagious, Study Finds | 7/25/2007 | See Source »

Comparing absolute numbers of murdered schoolchildren in one place to absolute numbers of dead soldiers in another is problematic, to say the least. During the 2006-07 school year, 34 kids were killed in Chicago. The death of 34 children is morally reprehensible, but if we are going to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Baghdad Safer Than Chicago? | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

I knew that my parents, as Jews and citizens under the Communist government, had a difficult time in Romania, and I knew I couldn’t compare their childhood to my trip. Yet I couldn’t help enjoying myself. Perhaps I had underestimated Romania.

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer | Title: Romanian Holiday | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

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