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...enough H1N1 vaccine to inoculate all Americans, officials are worried that frontline health workers, who should be among the first in line for the injections, might refuse over safety concerns. That could compromise health workers' ability to treat patients who are hospitalized with the disease. A study of 11 focus groups conducted in Canada prior to the H1N1 outbreak found that health-care workers might refuse to immunize their children and themselves if they believed the risks of a new vaccine outweighed the benefits, according to a report in the Emergency Health Threats Journal in August. Another study published last...
...dawn of the human lineage. "This isn't just a skeleton," he says. "We've been able to put together a fantastic, high-resolution snapshot of a period that was a blank." The search for more pieces continues, but the outlines of the puzzle, at least, are coming into focus...
...matter what your weight is now, focus on maintaining your weight at every level,” said Soheyla D. Gharib, chief of medicine at University Heath Services. “When you’re overweight at age 18, it seems like there aren’t going to be more changes [to your weight]—I think people are not aware of that. There’s a market out there about joining weight loss programs and taking pills, and while those may be quick fixes, in general, it’s hard to go back...
Those cuts could focus on funding for a range of public services, from health care to libraries and prisons. The impact on the state could be dire. There are concerns that cuts to prisons and police departments, for example, will lead to an increase in crime. And one of the Granholm administration's chief goals - doubling the number of Michigan college graduates - could be derailed by plans to cut a program that awards up to $4,000 to any student who finishes two years of college...
...beginning for Malmgren. "Our model only describes how we do one activity," he says, "but we actually juggle lots of things. So it's interesting to consider how we transition between them." One way to get a handle on how people multitask is to look at online activity, the focus of his group's next analysis: it involves a lot of different behaviors - such as chatting, game-playing and reading - but under a single umbrella. "There's potentially a lot wrapped up into one," says Malmgren...