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...cases the disease itself--are almost entirely preventable. There are better techniques for monitoring diabetes and more effective drugs for treating it, and a major study published last year shows that by making only modest changes in diet and exercise, people at high risk of Type 2 diabetes can stave off the disease for at least three years and perhaps a lot longer (more on Type 1 in just...
...Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France on his way to London. And British police have detained 21 people (some of whom have since been released) under British antiterrorism laws in the past two weeks. Are police methodically rolling up terror networks - or frantically trying to stave off a suspected holiday attack? Perhaps a little of both. "There are very big, very important police operations under way [in the U.K.]," notes a senior French antiterror official. "Concern is high that attack plots may be advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities...
...infected--has got doctors and folks who eat at ChiChi's scrambling to come to terms with a disease usually considered pretty benign, at least compared with its more deadly cousins, B and C. As thousands in the Pittsburgh area lined up for shots of immune globulin, which can stave off infection if given quickly enough, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traced the problem to a bad batch of scallions, probably from Mexico...
...America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their deficit spending below 3% of GDP in order to stave off inflation. But what's a sacrosanct international agreement when the national interest comes calling? France and Germany suffer from close-to-zero growth and close-to-double-digit unemployment rates. So why not spend their way out of the slump, never mind yesterday's vows? With about...
...another frigid flu season draws near, University Health Services (UHS) hopes to help students stave off the annual menace...