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...JAMA study, the CDC scientists report that infection with drug-resistant flu does not cause more severe illness or lead to more hospitalizations than infection with nonresistant strains. The study also finds that the resistant strain did not arise from overuse of Tamiflu; in fact, during the past flu season, the resistant strain was found widely in countries with low Tamiflu use, like Norway, but less commonly in places, like Japan, where Tamiflu use is high. If overuse had played a role in the emergence of the resistant strain, health officials might have recommended that clinicians restrict prescriptions...
When it comes to this year's flu season, health experts are saying so far, so good. The vaccine appears to be effective against the most widely circulating strains of influenza, and there is plenty of the drug to go around. The only dark cloud has been a disturbing rise in drug-resistant flu, but new data published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that despite the resistant strain, things aren't as bad as they could be. (Read "What You Need to Know About Drug-Resistant...
...brutal game, though, in which a single strike makes you a loser. And that brutality explains another strain of anger beginning to bubble up from the newly bankrupted. People like Paula Stevens and Joseph Zachery weren't flipping houses or lying on their loan applications. They didn't pile up mountains of credit-card debt. They worked hard for what they had and shared their modest portions with others. Each readily admits to making occasional mistakes with money, but even Warren Buffett has made occasional mistakes with money. Their bitterness stems from a feeling that they've held up their...
...higher rate of bank failures is increasing strain on the FDIC's resources. The agency's insurance-fund balance dropped by almost half in the fourth quarter, from $35 billion to $19 billion. To keep funds from dwindling, the FDIC is going to raise deposit-insurance assessment rates beginning in the second quarter of 2009, adding to the burden that already-troubled banks will have to bear...
...single strain of the virus, influenza-A, causes the majority of flu cases, but comes in sixteen varieties—evidence of the great difficulty of finding a general cure for the disease...