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...still might need a flu shot if you're traveling abroad this summer. And that's just one of a growing battery of shots that older travelers need to think about these days. With the emergence of SARS and prevalence of other infectious diseases like pneumonia and typhoid fever, it pays to chat with your doctor about immunization before you board your next flight. "We're looking at vaccines in a whole new way, to be able to help travelers as much as we can in whatever destination they are going to," says Dr. Bradley Connor, president of the International...
Being a parent brings out the most extreme traits in all of us--capacities for love, fear, persistence you never knew you had--and those traits are only magnified when a kid is in danger. You stay up all night when your daughter spikes a 101° fever. You drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology...
...Their fever is spreading. Last semester the Eliot House Committee awarded the IM Athlete of the Week grant so the two could give ten dollar John Harvard’s or Pinocchio’s gift certificates to the player who has made a significant impact...
...phone conversation because I had a dinner reservation, and he had to deal with a peasant with an unremitting fever. But interviewing Farmer made me feel better about myself. By not making the list, we are in a way equals. Plus, I figure it's just this kind of socially responsible journalism that will move me up higher on next year's list. And if I ever come down with a communicable disease, I know a really good doctor...
...five times the normal amount. In Poland, customers went on a sugar-buying frenzy in the last week of March, forcing some stores to limit purchases to 10 kg per customer and driving sugar prices 50% higher. A headline in Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading daily, called it white fever. The more affluent Czechs have been slower to catch on, though by mid-April they, too, were hoarding sugar and rice. Is the panic justified? Yes and no. Prices for everything from cement to dry cleaning to bananas will go up as vat rates rise and other duties take effect...