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...placebo last year, doctors from the National Institutes of Health and the biotechnology firm Aviron said today that only 1 percent of the 1,070 children who received the real spray caught the flu. By contrast, 18 percent of the 532 children who got the fake spray got sick. Overall, doctors involved in the 30-year study said the vaccine was effective against both the A and B strains of last year's flu virus and showed no noticeable side effects. Prepared from weakened influenza viruses rather than killed viruses found in traditional flu shots, the vaccine may be available...
...same, competition to deliver medical care in Bedford can get fairly heated. When the two hospitals aren't squabbling over roadside opportunities, they are engaged in a larger struggle for the sick and elderly in this town of 15,000. Their philosophies are at opposite extremes of today's health-care debate. Bedford Regional has eagerly embraced managed care and linked itself to a statewide hospital chain. County-owned Dunn is sticking to an almost Norman Rockwell vision of traditional health care. The hospital war being waged nationally is taking place here in microcosm; it is at institutions like Dunn...
They could use the money. Their ranch has been profitable in only two of the past 10 years, and Donna, a vivacious 61-year-old, is sick of scraping by. She wants to enjoy retirement with Duane, a soulful, laconic man of 67 who in the past two years has survived four operations and two broken limbs. But Duane is stubborn. His family has been ranching here for more than a century. "I know how I want to die," he says. "Just fall over in my field. That's the best way." Yet he also knows that when his time...
...YORK: While both Microsoft and CBS heatedly denied a newspaper report that Bill Gates is trying to buy the $14 billion network, the buzz continues. Although Westinghouse said the network is not for sale, impatient Westinghouse shareholders may be sick of the underperforming network. If CBS does go on sale, Gates may have some competition on his hands. Seagram, owner of Universal Studios, recently dumped a large chunk of Time Warner and has reportedly expressed interest in CBS. In a classic non denial-denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership...
...punishment money is the least important part of the package. It cannot resurrect all those millions of dead smokers or cure those now terminally afflicted. Besides, current high cigarette excise taxes already cover much of the states' public-health outlay to care for sick smokers. The settlement price is really meant to put a dent in the American tobacco industry's bottom line. But by gradually jacking up the retail price of the 24 billion packs they sell in the U.S. annually and saving much of their present multibillion-dollar-a-year advertising, promotion and merchandising budget (thanks to restrictions...