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...tend to be influenced by the last experience we had or something that made a deep impression on us," Groopman says. So if it's January, your doctor has just seen 14 patients with the flu and you show up with muscle aches and a fever, he or she is more likely to say you have the flu--which is fine unless it's really meningitis or a reaction to a tetanus shot that you forgot to mention...
...daughter: Esma needs to pay Sara’s imminent school trip fees—a whopping sum of 200 euros—and we see her become increasingly more embarrassed as she asks each of the film’s characters for help. Tension escalates to a fever pitch as Sara questions the identity of her father while the school trip looms nearer. The past is a context, rather than a subject, for the film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women?...
...with any new vaccine, there are plenty of unknowns about Gardasil. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently studied 542 reports on side effects out of 2.1 million doses given. Most were minor and expected: pain at the injection site, fever, dizziness and fainting. "Any procedure involving a needle has a risk of fainting," says Dr. John Iskander of the CDC's immunization safety office, which recommends waiting in the doctor's office for 15 minutes after any shot. Another unknown: how long the protection will last and whether a booster will be needed. Merck says its studies...
When climate-change skeptics mock the fear about a rise of a "few degrees" in temperature, we should remind them of how it feels to have a 103 fever. A few degrees above normal can mean the difference between life and death, species survival and extinction. And a few actions on our part could make the difference between a healthy planet and one that falls into an environmental tailspin. The time has come for action. The earth's future is in our hands...
...heartbeat’s thump and grave chords strikingly similar to those in Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” The vocals move through the song like mist over a still lake, and Air’s dreamy trance hits a fever pitch. While “Pocket Symphony” is by no means “Talkie Walkie,” you’ll still find yourself eager to explore Air’s breathless cosmos. —Reviewer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...