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...costs about $500, says Sharma. The test returns accurate results for 98% of people with structural heart defects like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, the Italian researchers found that 7% of tests returned a false-positive result, requiring athletes to undergo more expensive investigations - and deal with the anxiety of wondering whether there was something wrong with their hearts. What's more, some cardiologists believe that physical examinations can be equally effective in uncovering heart defects in athletes. A non-ECG screening of high school and college athletes in the U.S. from 1983 to 1993 resulted in an annual death rate...
...intends to make available the first batch of 45 million doses. The Australian researchers stress that while their results are encouraging, they are also incomplete; they have not compared the response in these vaccinated volunteers to a group of unimmunized controls, so it's still too early to decide whether it's safe to do away with the second inoculation...
...study, scientists explored another question - whether the current vaccine doses would still be effective if they were halved, by being diluting with an adjuvant (currently, the U.S. government has not approved any vaccines with adjuvants, but some have been approved in other countries). The answer, it seems, in another early look at the data, is yes. Even a single dose of the watered-down version of the vaccine produced enough antibodies to protect against infection in 80% of the 175 people studied...
...question now is whether we can test and produce vaccine faster than H1N1 can spread. Act quickly, and we might be able to stifle the disease in its earliest stages. But even if the vaccines arrive too late to stop H1N1 from spreading rapidly now, they can help build population-level resistance to the disease going forward. The Science study estimates that without vaccines, the virus could infect as many as 2.2 billion people worldwide over the course of the year. "The virus will be with us for many years to come in many forms," said Longini. "It's important...
...noted the cost-effective aspect of the merging, FAS will continue to pay for the salaries of Mitchell and his two former staff workers—assistant director of communications Stephen Bradt and communications specialist Amy A. Lavoie, who now report to Longbrake. It has not been decided whether Bradt and Lavoie’s salaries will be paid for by the University rather than FAS after the current transition phase, according to Longbrake. Mitchell said he has met with students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and plans to meet with Senior Adviser on Faculty Development...