Word: preventive
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...with the emotions of Jets' fans, whose hopes are built up every off season and dashed once play begins. In announcing that his tenure as Patriots coach is over, Parcells said "I do not desire to continue as an NFL coach," couching his statement in the contractual terms that prevent him from coaching any team except the Patriots if he works this year. Representatives from both teams met to discuss the situation Thursday, with the Patriots demanding the Jets' first round draft pick and the Jets offering two second round picks and $1 million instead. While the Jets...
...experimental GS 4104 compound have produced better-than-expected results by knocking out samples of all major flu types in five different species of lab animals, according to a report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. GS 4104 contains the infection by preventing newly-formed viruses from leaving the host cell. But don't expect to be able to take a pill to get rid of the flu anytime soon. Human trials are planned for later this year, with results expected in two or three years at the earliest. Even if those trials...
...order to prevent that, FDA Commissioner David Kessler is proposing a new measure--set to take effect later this year--that forbids using cattle parts in animal feed but still permits them in fertilizer. The government concedes that switching to protein substitutes like soy would cost U.S. feed producers up to $48 million a year, and the industry insists that the final figure would be much higher. Whatever the price, however, Kessler believes it's worth it. "The risk of BSE is small but real," he says. "If a case did occur in this country, we want to wall...
...course, no regulatory measure will take the place of finding a way to treat or prevent BSE infection. But the disease may at last be starting to give up its secrets. A number of researchers are convinced that mad cow is caused not by a common bacterium or virus but by a vanishingly small crumb of protein known as a prion...
WASHINGTON: TIME?s Elaine Shannon reports that law enforcement authorities across the U.S. ?are on heightened alert, watching as intensively as they can? to prevent violent attacks on women's clinics as abortion proponents and pro-lifers on Wednesday commemorate the 24th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. Federal agents, who have investigated 175 clinic attacks to date, continue to search for leads as to who is responsible for two bombings at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa last week. "There is evidence, and it's evidence that could identify...