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...shown promise in tests but must be taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms' appearance--requiring a very swift diagnosis. More in-depth study is needed to assess how well those drugs would work against a pandemic--something that's tough to do with so few patients and viral samples...
...cause for immediate alarm. "There are no obvious changes in the virus that we tested," says Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong who has helped sound the pandemic alarm. For now, he says, there's "nothing new. Nothing to worry about." The viral genes are still the same avian-flu genes that haven't figured out how to spread easily from one person to another...
...like public health authorities in the U.S. and many other countries, you're counting on the anti-viral drug Tamiflu (generic name oseltamivir) to save you should bird flu become pandemic, you may have to think again. A Hong Kong expert told Reuters on Friday that a strain of the H5N1 virus isolated in northern Vietnam this year is resistant to Tamiflu. More common human flu viruses have also recently been shown to be developing a resistance to another set of antivirals called adamantine drugs...
Actually, it does. When a cyberbully lashes out, it can be a sign of emotional or psychological problems. And cyberbullying is viral. The Clemson study found that kids who are victimized "seem to be heavily involved in bullying others," says psychologist Sue Limber. In the real world, physical intimidation may keep those who are bullied from retaliating, but that's not a problem online. "Cyberbullying can also lead to other forms of victimization," Limber says. If someone insults a classmate on a Xanga, the effects could include ostracization at school. "Passing notes or writing on lockers was nothing," says Limber...
...forestall disaster, the rules were changed in 1983. A patient's ailment is now assigned to one of 470 diagnosis-related groups, which categorize treatment for everything from appendicitis to viral meningitis. Each DRG carries a fixed reimbursement rate based on the cost of treating the average patient. If a hospital can treat a patient for less than the DRG rate, it can keep the change; if the patient's care exceeds the ceiling, the hospital absorbs the loss. In theory, hospitals will lose money on complicated cases and save on simpler ones, and Medicare costs will be brought under...