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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...
...question now is whether we can test and produce vaccine faster than H1N1 can spread. Act quickly, and we might be able to stifle the disease in its earliest stages. But even if the vaccines arrive too late to stop H1N1 from spreading rapidly now, they can help build population-level resistance to the disease going forward. The Science study estimates that without vaccines, the virus could infect as many as 2.2 billion people worldwide over the course of the year. "The virus will be with us for many years to come in many forms," said Longini. "It's important...
...more that we learn about these animals, the more we realize that from the animals' point of view, such experiments amount to torture. In many instances, it's immoral to be thinking about animals as living test tubes. So let's get our brilliant brains together and come up with alternatives as quickly...
...five teams in the Collegiate Water Polo Association preseason top 20—standing in its way. As the Crimson prepares for match-ups with No. 11 Princeton, No. 16 Santa Clara, George Washington, and Northern Division foe Fordham, the team knows it faces a challenge, but welcomes the test.“Our team is very fired up for all four of these games,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “We’ve got four great games and we’re playing all of them to win.”In order...
...disconcerted old-timer, unsettled and upset with the ungodly direction in which youth culture is headed. Yet Jay-Z does more than simply advocate for the good old days of baggier pants and violence-inducing rhymes, rather offering a long-overdue invitation to up-and-comers to test the waters of innovation, noting on “D.O.A.,” “I don’t be in the project hallway / talking about how I be in the project all day / that sounds stupid to me.” On “Off That...