Word: polio
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 847-866-3000 www.rotary.org In 1985 the Rotarians took on the task of eradicating polio with oral vaccines. Cases have dropped from 350,000 in 1988 to fewer than 1,400 so far this year...
...particularly sordid little tale centers on the Martin-and-Lewis-esque 1950s musical/comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth, distancing himself from his “Bridget Jones’s Diary” nice-guy image), who perform a yearly telethon to benefit polio victims. Behind the scenes, they indulge in plenty of sex, drugs, fights, and mob connections.The dead girl who opens the film is Maureen O’Flaherty (Rachel Blanchard), a college student working at a Florida hotel; she brings the duo room service and stays the night. Three days later...
...children in the Philippines born between 1983 and 1984. It compared the IQs of 1,975 children who participated in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS), and compared the performance of those who were immunized against those who were not.The immunized group of children were inoculated against polio, measles, tuberculosis, and DTP within the first two years of their lives. The second group never received vaccinations. The study found that vaccinations during childhood resulted in substantially higher IQs as well as higher language and math test scores when compared with their non-immunized counterparts.The results of this study...
...times and disappointingly stiff at others. Miller profiles each of the major players in the field: Kazuhiko “Kaz” Yamada, the Japanese master surgeon; David K.C. Cooper, the old-school British surgeon; and Sachs himself, a New York native who was nearly crippled by polio in the 1940s. But, save a few revealing outbursts in group meetings, Miller has trouble getting any of the players to go off-message, quoting formal-sounding statements in multi-paragraph chunks. They escape from their interviews with their press armor intact...
...Occasionally he'd call me up and say, 'I didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were playing," he says, "so I carried the Band-Aids...