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...appointed by President Michel Suleiman (widely considered to be neutral) - that would give the opposition a stake in major decisions but not the veto power it had demanded during the crisis. But when the Cabinet was submitted to the President for approval, the opposition balked. Reports in Lebanon suggest the reason for the breakdown is that Michel Aoun, the leader of a Christian party allied with Hizballah, is unhappy that his son-in-law wasn't reappointed to the Telecommunications Ministry...
Vaccine trials are currently under way in the U.S. and around the world - and the early findings suggest that the immunization is safe and effective. In the U.S., the National Institutes of Health recently opened trials to pregnant women and children to test the safety and efficacy of the shot, and so far, the vaccine appears suitable for those groups...
...borne out, the results suggest that more vaccine may be available for more people and that more people could be protected against H1N1 sooner. If only a single dose is required, that means vaccines could yield protection within three to four weeks after inoculation, instead of the six to eight weeks it would take if two doses were needed...
Earlier this year, the British government hired management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to suggest ways the country's National Health Service (NHS) might save money in the face of rising health-care costs. But when a portion of McKinsey's confidential work calling for a 10% cut in the NHS workforce was leaked to the British press last week, politicians rushed to the airwaves to reject the report they themselves had commissioned. "That's not what we are about," Minister of Health Mike O'Brien told the BBC. "In core frontline services, we need more staff rather than fewer...
Brook's data suggest that particulates are more active players in heart problems than ozone, and that two different processes may be occurring as we inhale unclean air. First, the fine matter triggers changes in the central nervous system, causing a switch from the more controlled regulation of body processes to a more instinctive, automatic fight-or-flight response. This revs up the heartbeat and causes blood pressure to spike as the body may be responding to the presence of foreign, potentially dangerous particles in the air. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...