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Most of the time, the best treatment for flu is to dive under the covers and forget the world for a week. Be sure to alert your doctor, however, if you start having trouble breathing, develop a rattle in your chest or your fever persists. You may be developing pneumonia. Only your doctor can determine whether an antiflu drug is right for you. But remember, the most that Relenza or Tamiflu can do for you is cut your downtime by a day or two--and then only if you take it within 48 hours of the first symptoms...
...which poses particular dangers to people with compromised immune systems, is distinguished from other bugs by several factors: Its onset is extremely quick, and it brings high fever, cough and sore throat, headaches, extreme fatigue and muscle aches. Although some sufferers, including the elderly and the very young, should seek emergency assistance if the symptoms are extreme, most flu patients will be advised simply to rest, drink fluids and take a fever-reducer such as Tylenol or Advil. "You treat the symptoms," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Flu isn't life-threatening - it just makes people feel horrible...
...suppose you have tossed them out again. Coffee, once considered poison, turns out to be harmless. Red meat is not as lethal as once thought. Take a shot of Scotch, of red wine. Take a shot: vaccines are on the way soon that will prevent pneumonia, rheumatic fever, meningitis and the flu. There's a new prospect called regenerative medicine--using the body's own stem cells and growth factors to repair tissue. We make ourselves anew...
...odds were against little Keone Penn from the start. Born with the most severe form of sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disorder that afflicts more than 70,000 Americans, most of them of African descent, he experienced repeated episodes of racking pain and high fever as brittle, sickle-shaped red blood cells clogged his vessels. At age 5, he was temporarily paralyzed by a stroke. Since then he has bravely endured blood transfusions as often as every two weeks via a catheter attached to his chest. Still the threat of devastating pain and life-threatening infections continued to shadow...
Thanks to energetic protesters who claim the company's modified crops carry a wide range of environmental and health risks, opposition to the so-called Frankenfoods reached a fever pitch in Europe this year. And lately, American consumers have shown signs of rebelling against products such as Monsanto's modified seeds, which are at the heart of the company's agribusiness. Those inklings of dissent were enough, apparently, to make up executives' minds: They would complete a merger and quickly cut the agribusiness free from the rest of the company, letting it fend for itself. That amputation, execs hope, will...