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...respiratory disease that can cause fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills and muscle aches, according to aninformational sheet provided by UHS. It is contagious and is spread through...
Surgeon and best-selling author Nuland dialogues on his new book, The Doctor’s Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis, a medical detective story about Semmelweis, a figure remembered for his establishment of the notion that doctors must wash their hands prior to examining patients. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...Another important step is readying the "software" of disease control: an open, international surveillance network capable of quickly identifying the first cases. The biggest problem there is that the symptoms of SARS are so variable, making it hard to spot. Singapore's newest patient, for example, had a fever and a dry cough but lacked the telltale pneumonia of most cases. Even the best early diagnostic tests are slow and at most 80% reliable. The good news is that China, which tried to hide the extent of its outbreak last spring, has a new attitude. Guangdong has begun regularly sharing...
...That driving energy was recently on display on a Tokyo stage, where the Stripes were performing routines from the film. A crowd of young things stomped along while the Stripes tapped in a blue-lit fever dream. Shintaro Katsu's shuffling samurai couldn't have felt further away?or so close. For all their differences, the two Zatoichis share the same spirit as their creators: independent, charismatic, innovative. Kitano's Zatoichi succeeds, not by obliterating Katsu's character but by giving it a new Beat. The winning result (the film had critics swooning at the Venice Film Festival last week...
...this rampant style experimentation, paralleled by the rollicking sounds of the band's debut album, Fever to Tell, has given rise to a claque of Karen O wannabes. But Orzolek will never defer to the pushy stylists waiting to dress her in the latest designer offerings. "Ready-to-wear doesn't make sense to me at all," sighs Orzolek, who exclusively wears Christian Joy for performances and shoots...