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...Cough Near Me Chills? Fever? Sore throat? You could be about to join millions around the world who've fallen victim to the latest variants of the influenza bug. Just hope your virus isn't the vicious "Fujian flu," which originated in China at the start of the year and caused major outbreaks between June and August in New Zealand and Australia, where at one point around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway...
...lives to hate violence. The day exhorts us to “remember our dead”—to engage in rites of public mourning for those whose deaths would otherwise go unmarked. It is difficult to communicate the degree of danger to which trans and gender-variant people are subject every day. The average person stands a one in 18,000 chance of being murdered; for trans people, the likelihood...
...confront the virulent transphobia that keeps trans people from finding jobs, housing, or health care that makes them so vulnerable to violence in the first place? Though gay and lesbian activists have made significant social and legislative inroads in the last two decades, progress for gender-variant people has been glacial by comparison. Only four states—California, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity...
Further study revealed that their HDL was of a rare type, later named ApoA-1 Milano, that is evidently much more protective than ordinary HDL. In the 1990s Dr. P.K. Shah of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles injected a synthetic version of this variant HDL into rabbits and mice. He showed that ApoA-1 Milano could not only reverse plaque buildup but also stabilize and reduce inflammation of what was left...
This unavoidable vulnerability was made evident by the recent discovery that while attending social events, two Harvard students unintentionally consumed Rohypnol—or some variant thereof—which is commonly referred to as one of several “date-rape drugs.” This discovery has also provoked accusations of inability on the part of University Health Services (UHS) employees’ ability to understand and properly treat Rohypnol poisoning. These weaknesses require immediate attention and investigation by University officials and prompt actions to improve UHS’s ability to respond quickly and effectively...