Word: journalism
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...more exotic explanation was posed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...
...Delphian oracle could not have been more clairvoyant. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors at the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Virginia reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome -- flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says...
...value of research on baboons and chimpanzees, among other beasts, creates an urgency to move swiftly to tests on humans. Last week, after months of rumors within the scientific community, it was confirmed that this dramatic leap has been taken in vaccine research. In a letter in the British journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Zagury, an AIDS investigator at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, described a bold experiment: he had inoculated himself in November with a potential AIDS vaccine...
Established in 1938 at Harvard in memory of Lucius W. Nieman, the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the fellowships are intended to give journalists from around the world a chance to expand their intellectual perspectives. Simons said. While at Harvard, the fellows can take any of Harvard's courses...
...have witnessed this game many times before. Reagan was down--way down--after he drifted off into an endless and senseless speech at the end of his first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984. Even his friends were worried--the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, for instance, questioned the president's health. Reagan was kept in seclusion. Americans were given sufficient time to draw their mental pictures of Reagan as an aged grandparent...