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...second wave could still prove more deadly than the seasonal flu, especially for young children. To date, 189 children have died of influenza in the U.S., the majority of them related to H1N1 infection, and that number is already higher than the total number of pediatric deaths attributed to flu in 2008. Lipsitch says that if current trends hold, H1N1 may end up causing as many influenza deaths, if not more, than the seasonal flu, which kills about 36,000 Americans each year. Instead of hitting the elderly the hardest, though, most of the deaths may be among young children...
...thirteen total lines approved by the NIH constitute the first batch of new stem cell sources authorized for funding since 2001, when former President George W. Bush prohibited the approval of new stem cell lines. Twenty-seven more lines developed at Harvard are slated for approval in the next few weeks...
Currently, 31 proposed grants—valued at a total of at least $21 million—that hope to use the new cell lines are ready for review, he added...
...Though the President did not offer a cost - estimates on Capitol Hill have put the total bill at anywhere between $75 billion and $200 billion - he did justify the new spending by citing nearly $200 billion in unspent or returned funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. "This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street," he said...
...report released Dec. 9 by Human Rights Watch found that at least 39 schools in the Eastern states of Jharkhand and Bihar have been attacked by Naxals in the last year. That doesn't include schools that are occupied by state security forces, of which the total number is still unknown. "When we wanted to know of the exact number of schools that were being occupied by the security forces, the government refused to provide us the details," says Subrata Bhattacharjee, president of the Jharkhand chapter of the People's Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), an advocacy group based...