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...Britain, the hardest-hit country in Europe, the government's chief medical officer caused a brief stir last week when he said that the National Health Service was preparing for a worst-case scenario of 65,000 deaths from the flu next winter. To prevent hospital overcrowding, the NHS is planning to allow people who think they might have swine flu to call a telephone line and answer a few questions; those whose answers indicate they might have it will be allowed to receive the antiviral Tamiflu or have a "flu friend" pick it up for them. (The system...
...create asthma," says Dr. Leonard Bielroy, an allergy, asthma and immunology specialist in Springfield, N.J., who has studied some of the condition's intersecting risk factors. "And whether those factors are psychological or physical, the more they overlap, the greater the chance of developing asthma." (See how to prevent illness...
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...Nevertheless, Spencer H. Hardwick '11, president of the Black Students Association and also a Crimson news writer, said that "the situation clearly requires an investigation into the motives of the officers involved and the policies and procedures of the Cambridge Police Department" in order to "prevent further incidents of arbitrary and unfair treatment against innocent citizens." He said that his organization has opened a dialogue with the University administration to explore how the BSA could help address these issues. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
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