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Colonel Jerome Kim, who helped lead the study for the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, says other unknowns remain about the vaccine, such as the duration of its effect, the potential need for additional boosters, its efficacy in higher-risk populations like intravenous drug users and, most crucially, whether it might work on other subtypes of the virus. "The vaccine was tested in Thailand against types of HIV that circulate in Thailand," Kim says, pointing out that a different strain of the virus causes high infection rates in Africa...
...emergency medicine, though, are patients' lives being put at risk? According to research from Imperial College London, the death rate among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August - the day, traditionally, that newly graduated doctors take up their posts - was, on average, 6% higher than for those admitted the last Wednesday in July. An influx of new medical staff, in other words, just might be very, very bad for your health...
...July and August admission days, was tracked for a week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven-day period, when researchers controlled for the patients' age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems, the odds of dying was found to be 6% higher for those admitted on the Wednesday in August. Among so-called medical admissions - all those not suffering from cancer or requiring surgery - the odds were 8% higher. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...apply to transfer to Harvard. More higher ed gloom and doom after the jump...
...Harvard's tuition has been upped just 3.5 percent (still above the near-zero inflation rate to compensate for higher demand for financial aid), financial aid funding has risen 18 percent, and President Faust and Dean Smith have reaffirmed that financial aid will not take a hit despite greater fiscal constraints...