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...While H1N1 infection results in mild or moderate disease in most patients - indeed, the most severe cases account for a small proportion of overall infections - a subset of patients are harder hit, the data show. And in those patients, the disease can often quickly become life-threatening. "The major point of our findings is that there has been a lot of perception that this is a mild disease, and a lot of people may be ambivalent about vaccination," says Dr. Janice Louie, a public-health medical officer at the California Department of Public Health and the study's lead author...
Martin Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe, echoed Howe’s point...
Christopher J. Hollyday ’11, the organizer of the forum and chairman of the forum committee on the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics, said the event was a valuable jumping-off point for future discussion...
...year, Democratic strategists on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have made no secret of the fact that they do not view time as their friend on enacting health reform, a goal that has eluded every President since Harry Truman who has attempted it. At one point, Democrats hoped to have the bill passed by both houses over the summer and on Obama's desk in the fall. Instead, the August recess was dominated by cable-television images of near riots at congressional town-hall meetings, and it took a dramatic, game-changing presidential address to a joint session of Congress...
...more conservative Democrats as well as Olympia Snowe of Maine, the only Republican who has shown any serious interest in supporting the bill. And to get anything over the hurdle of a threatened GOP filibuster, Reid will need to hold together his entire caucus of 60 Democrats. At this point, said a senior Democratic aide, the majority leader is only "cautiously optimistic" that he has the votes to simply bring the bill to the floor - under a normally non-controversial "motion to proceed" - and is still at least several votes short of 60 on the more serious subsequent procedural vote...