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There is, of course, no cure for memory loss, and no preventive vaccine. Yet a rapidly growing body of evidence suggests that certain behaviors may reliably slow the effects of age-related cognitive decline. Chief among them: eating right, exercising and engaging in social activity and mentally challenging tasks.
The long-anticipated announcement by the WHO, which followed an emergency meeting of flu experts in Geneva, signals to health officials around the globe that the new influenza strain will continue spreading quickly to more countries. It also adds urgency to their preparedness plans, which include acquiring and distributing antiviral...
"Here in the U.S., the Phase 6 declaration isn't going to change what we do day to day," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $1 billion to the development, testing...
That may help explain why the global response feels a bit disjointed. Different countries have different ways of keeping up with an evolving epidemic: while the Hong Kong government has been quarantining for 10 days everyone who has been in contact with a confirmed flu patient, local governments in the...
Seto Wing-hong, a leading microbiologist and a member of the Hong Kong government's Influenza Research and Response Group, is cautiously optimistic about the world's ability to reckon with this new disease. "There is every chance that it will spread," he says. "But these things have long incubation...