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What is the cost of winning? Every now and then there are a few sports teams that put this question to the test. The Yankees do this annually when they spend lavishly on new players in the off season, despite the fact that the return on this investment has been only two World Series championships in the last decade. Two weekends ago, a soccer game of the highest caliber tested the spend-happy habits of another blockbuster team, and the results were, unsurprisingly, the same...
...What it means to have a positive skin test is that you’ve had the TB germ in your body at one point. It doesn’t mean you’re sick or contagious,” she said, noting that roughly one in three individuals worldwide have been exposed to TB at some point in their lives...
...Harvard undergraduate was diagnosed with tuberculosis by University Health Services several weeks ago, and roughly forty students at risk for exposure have been asked to submit to a TB skin test, according to information provided by UHS and the Cambridge Public Health Department...
...among those students who have been asked to submit to a Mantoux Test, which determines whether an individual has produced antibodies to the tuberculosis bacterium, some have tested positive, according to Kate Matthews, a nurse in the Cambridge Public Health Department...
Matthews stressed that a positive skin test does not mean an individual is actively sick with...