Word: pox
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...Sarah in the Emergency Room of the hospital where I trained 15 years ago. She was seven years old at the time and had developed chicken pox three days earlier, but her pox had caused a "really bad headache." She had had a fever for the last several days, a slight runny nose, not much of an appetite because her throat hurt, and she was very tired. Tylenol didn't help for a headache that she described as being "all over" her head and a little on her neck. Still, there was no history of headaches or migraines...
...rash that 1 million adults in the U.S. each year come to know as shingles. Merck is awaiting FDA approval for its shingles shot, Zostavax, which is designed to prevent shingles in those who are most vulnerable to the disease--adults over age 60. Shingles occurs when the chicken-pox virus from a childhood infection is reactivated--usually by the decline in immunity that comes with age--and travels from the nerve cells where it has remained dormant, all the way to the skin, where it blossoms into the condition's hallmark lesions. Zostavax contains a crippled form...
Senate Democratic leaders were happy to have Obama take the baton, but didn't want the Illinois Senator to indulge in his usual pox-on-both-their-houses political style, whereby he lectures Democrats and Republicans alike for being divided and looks for a bipartisan solution. Democrats wanted to attack the G.O.P. over the excesses of lobbyist and admitted felon Abramoff, a Republican, and get a law passed only on their terms. So Obama tried to split the difference. He showed up at a bipartisan meeting on lobbying reform with Republican Senator John McCain but later sent McCain a letter...
...Diseases Society of America in October found that Merck's experimental vaccine Gardasil was 100% effective against two strains of human papillomavirus that cause 70% of all cervical cancers. Another experimental Merck vaccine was tested this year for protection against shingles, the painful blistering disorder caused by the chicken-pox virus. In a trial of more than 38,500 adults 60 and older, the vaccine cut the risk of shingles by more than half. It also reduced by two-thirds the symptoms of chronic pain that afflict many of the 1 million U.S. adults who develop shingles each year...
...Lange is a hot hand getting his shot. His Capital Appreciation Fund has risen 9.7% a year under his tenure, compared with an 8.4% average over the same period for the S&P 500. Still, now he must confront the Magellan pox: Stansky had also been one of Fidelity's hottest young managers when he took over the flagship fund in 1996, only to stumble badly. During his tenure Magellan rose 6.9% a year-compared with an 8.1% gain over the same period for the Standard & Poor...