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...What role can drugs play in tackling a swine flu outbreak? Over the last few years, concern over a bird flu pandemic spurred many governments to stockpile antivirals. While the current swine flu outbreak remains limited in scope, health agencies will likely offer antivirals as a prophylaxis only to those who may have been exposed to the disease: asymptomatic passengers on the same flight as a sick Spanish man, for example, have been given Oseltamivir as a precaution. In New Zealand and Mexico, where there are confirmed cases of the disease, the drug has been made available over-the-counter...
...they aren't used to prevent swine flu, can they help slow the spread of a pandemic? The most effective way of slowing a pandemic is to develop a vaccine. But doing so can take months. In the interim, antivirals may play a vital roll by making ill patients less contagious. When a person is sick with the flu, he or she "sheds" virus through coughing, sneezing and other excretions. Effective antivirals lessen the amount of virus a patient sheds (because the patient is not as severely ill) and shortens the length of time he or she sheds virus...
...came within a missed extra point of an undefeated 2008 campaign. It produced no fewer than seven All-Ivy selections this season, including three First Team defensive selections in Eric Schultz, Glenn Dorris, and Andrew Berry. There are a few holdovers, to be sure, some whom will play huge roles this season...
...surf, you’ve got Hollister. If you play polo you’ve got, well, Polo. And now, thanks to one enterprising Harvard Law School student, those who play lacrosse have Status Flow. When co-founder Kevin A. Valsi, a second-year student at HLS, launched Status Flow Clothing last year, he was hoping to capitalize on lacrosse’s growing popularity among high school and college students by catering to what he characterized as an under-served subculture. “I found it interesting and surprising that there weren’t any brands associated...
...seventh.“He’s been one of those guys behind the scenes,” Walsh said of Wortzman. “It’s nice to know that if your catchers get hurt you have a guy who can step in there and play. What I’d like to see—and I know he’s got a big career in medicine planned—I think he’d make a terrific coach.”For all the seniors, it was the end of a tough...