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...close of the H1N1 pandemic does not eliminate the long-term threat from influenza. Another pandemic could arise at any time, and a new paper published in the Feb. 22 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) demonstrates that it could even come from an existing flu virus that many of us have forgotten about: the H5N1 bird flu, which has infected 478 people in 15 countries since 2003, with 286 deaths - a fatality rate higher than...
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...real Vegas has had its profits pinched by the Great Recession lately. But luxe, energy, sexual threat and primal rock 'n' roll are back in fashion on the Aria stage, where Cirque is throwing its most joyous party ever--and where Elvis lives...
Your article on the threat of hepatitis B stated that the illness is spread through unprotected sex, sharing of needles or acupuncture [Jan. 26]. This statement is incorrect. It perpetuates a myth and unfairly portrays the legitimate health care profession of acupuncture in a negative light. Acupuncturists in the U.S. have master's degrees and thousands of hours of classroom and clinical training in preventing and treating diseases. A 2001 study in the British Medical Journal found that in 34,407 treatments by 1,848 professional acupuncturists, there were zero instances of transmission of hepatitis or any other disease. Performed...
...also cited committee co-chair and English professor Louis Menand, who disagreed with Pinker. “For Harvard—or any liberal-arts college—placing value on the study of religion poses no threat to secularism, science, or rationality," he said...