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...Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army provided funding) involved about 16,400 Thai volunteers. Half were given six injections comprising two AIDS vaccines, neither of which had proved effective in previous studies; the other half of the study group was given a placebo. (Read "The Flip Side of Placebos: The Nocebo Effect...
...before the vaccine, more than 10,000 people were hospitalized and about 100 to 150 people died from chicken pox in the U.S. each year. While these vaccinations do not prevent all instances of their diseases, they do help prevent the occurrence of these diseases with minimal risks of side effects. With already more than a million people in the U.S. infected, you would think H1N1 vaccines would be an obvious choice...
...First, how would we feel if we were forced to take a vaccine for a disease we do not usually get, but then get sick from the vaccine after the vaccine was intended to prevent sickness in the first place? This policy can implode if we see even minor side effects. Alongside these immediate health concerns, there are larger ideological arguments. How can the government decide what we put in our bodies? And with these mandates, do we open the door for the government to take more control in other matters? The government walks a fine line when it issues...
...Some observers say neither side is really in the right; while it's not fiscally prudent to keep temporarily fixing doctors' Medicare reimbursements by going deeper in debt, they argue the problem is more than a decade old and is not actually related to the current health-care reform debate. And indeed, the issue reaches all the way back to 1997, when President Clinton and a Republican Congress altered the complicated formula that dictates Medicare payments. At the time, the so-called sustainability growth rate (SGR) was depegged from inflation to wage growth. That was fine with doctors until...
...ethnic Tajik officer corps viewed with resentment by Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, who are also the Taliban's social base. Training may be just one challenge in developing an army willing and able to fight what at present would be seen as those on the side of foreign forces in the middle of a civil...