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...President Bush is soon expected to announce one of the largest public health initiatives in decades, making the vaccine available, on a voluntary basis, to 500,000 health-care workers. The vaccine carries risks; for every million people who take it, as many as 52 will develop life-threatening ailments, and roughly two will die. On the plus side, it is one of the few vaccines that work relatively well even when given a couple of days after exposure. The ill effects pale beside those of smallpox, which kills nearly one-third of those infected...
...forget about politics. Will the new Trek sell? Star Trek: The Man Show doesn't sound promising--jocks and nerds, after all, don't commingle. Perhaps that's why Enterprise hasn't connected with people; it has one-third fewer viewers in its second season than Voyager did during its sophomore outing. Trek fans may also be a bit exhausted. "Perhaps we weren't careful enough in giving the audience some breathing room--a year or two they could have lain fallow," says Berman. Nemesis, however, may prove him wrong. In firing up one of the most riveting space battles...
...have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass!" (Which would be a lot more manly if he hadn't said it to a woman.) But forget about politics. Will the new Trek sell? Enterprise hasn't connected with people; it has one-third fewer viewers in its second season than Voyager did during its sophomore outing. Trek fans may also be a bit exhausted. "Perhaps we weren't careful enough in giving the audience some breathing room - a year or two they could have lain fallow," says Berman. Nemesis, however, may prove...
More than one-third of U.S. doctors and nearly half of the public say they or members of their family have been victims of medical errors, a study published yesterday by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Kaiser Family Foundation found...
...experts are starting to think that even the current situation is more dire than anyone had realized. In October, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of the first nationwide survey measuring the total burden of arthritis and chronic joint symptoms. Their sobering conclusion: one-third of all American adults suffer from some type of joint disease...