Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lardner, public health nurse at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where a student survived a case of meningitis last fall, said first-year students' unfamiliarity with crowded dormitory living and their tendency to partake in "high risk behavior," such a drinking and smoking, makes them most likely to contract the disease...
...ACHA cites two CDC studies indicating increased risk of meningitis among first-year students living in dormitories, but many people believe the new policy was caused primarily by media pressure. This fall, ABC ran a profile on college meningitis cases in its newsmagazine "20/20" that some health professionals said they credit with raising parental awareness of the disease...
...From what I know about the meningococcal vaccine, I am leaving it up to an individual choice," Rosenthal said. "It depends on how people feel about their own health needs...
...There are many different costs that the health service has at Harvard that we don't have here," Turco said. "Anything under $100 I would put in a reasonable category...
...director of a college health service, my prime task is to prevent people from getting ill and certainly from dying. I think it's a very very high [risk] to put a price tag on that...