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...such unusually high levels - some 60% of the world's confirmed cases have occurred in people age 18 or younger - schools have become a major locus of infection. Outbreaks incubate among children in schools, then spread to the community when those kids go home. A study in the journal Lancet found that closing schools as a preventive measure in the early stages of a pandemic could sharply cut the number of cases initially, which would reduce the later surges of infections that can overwhelm hospitals...
...have flown over Afghanistan or Iraq, because the plane was designed for long-range air-to-air duels with futuristic fighters that perhaps China eventually might field. "At least [the F-22s] are safe from cyberattack," wrote former Navy Secretary John Lehman over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal. "No one in China knows how to program the '83 vintage IBM software that runs them." And it's hard to talk up the Chinese threat. Pentagon officials say that by 2020, the U.S. military will be flying more than 1,000 so-called fifth-generation fighters...
...testify about Bank of America's takeover of Merrill Lynch, the government's bailout of AIG, the federal budget deficit, the Fed's various new lending programs and the economic outlook. He has also taken to penning occasional Op-Ed pieces - today he has one in the Wall Street Journal explaining the Fed's "exit strategy" once it decides it's safe to take the economy off life support. (Read a two-minute bio of Bernanke...
...should. According to a new study just published in the journal Science, the greatest single increase in racehorse speed in the history of the sport occurred about a century ago and owed entirely to where the jockey did - or didn't - place his fanny on the saddle. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...postpartum period - not even close to likely," says Michael O'Hara, a University of Iowa professor of psychology. Further, say experts, while pregnancy hormones may impact a small subgroup of vulnerable women, they have little to do with PPD in most cases. In a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2000, researchers used drugs to mimic the postpartum decline of pregnancy hormones in 16 women, eight with histories of PPD and eight without. Five of the eight women who had previously experienced PPD developed mood symptoms. But none of the women who had never been depressed postpartum...