Word: developable
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...will be very hard to tell what will happen in the next flu season, especially if a worse case of influenza does develop. One panic is expensive, but a second is a waste of money. Experts maintain that the difference of a few days could be the critical issue in the containment of influenza. If the public becomes complacent that the next epidemic will be mild and resists public health advice, then the economy really will face a disaster when a virulent influenza appears and spreads widely...
...What we're seeing now is some renewed optimism, and it could develop into something, but it's still too early to know. In the Great Depression we had a recovery after '33-it wasn't a full recovery, but it was a recovery. So it's entirely plausible that we could be there soon. But a full recovery didn't come until 1947/1948. We really messed up our system for now, and it's going to be hard to have a full recovery. But we could have further gains in the stock market and an end to the home...
...good health, and never used to be concerned about flu. "I used to think it was just something that you got in the night and that was gone the next day," he says. He hoped it would be the same when he felt a sore throat and headache develop on April 22. But the next day his temperature shot up to 102 degrees and his throat closed so tightly he could hardly breathe. "I didn't want to upset my wife and daughters, so I tried to pretend it wasn't so bad," he says. "But then the pain became...
...screening babies for autism at 18 months, but researchers have yet to refine the tools for making a reliable diagnosis at that age. One issue, says Catherine Lord, director of the University of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders Center, is that there is so much individual variability in how babies develop. Another challenge is that many of the signature signs of autism - delayed speech, repetitive movements or fixations on particular toys or objects - involve language and motor skills that babies have not yet acquired. That's why identifying the signs of autism before age 2 often involves the absence of typical...
Several studies from across the country are looking at how to draw at-risk infants into the social world so that they will develop more normally. One National Institutes of Health-funded study, at the University of Washington, begins intervention for at-risk babies at 8 months, says Dawson, who adds, "What we are doing is teaching the parents how to structure interactions to promote eye contact and babbling." Parents learn, for example, to engage their babies in settings where there are few distractions so that facial expressions and language are more salient. They also learn strategies to calm infants...