As the major newspapers write their obituaries for the public option, progressives across the nation are making it clear: no public option, no mandate to buy private health insurance. If it is true that there are not enough votes in the US Senate to pass the public option, then what do we do?

The global battle to eradicate poliomyelitis is already 9 years behind schedule. To make matters worse, type 2 poliovirus, which was declared eradicated in 1999, has returned. There are three serotypes of poliovirus, each of which causes poliomyelitis. The vaccine used by WHO in the global eradication effort is a trivalent preparation comprising all three serotypes.

Recently while driving north on the New York State Thruway I passed the exit for the town of Coxsackie, NY (population 8,884). I grabbed my camera and photographed the exit sign, and reminded myself to write about the virus named after this small town.

We've had several discussions on the value of personal protective equipment (PPE) in preventing influenza infection. CIDRAP has an excellent summary of an Institute of Medicine meeting on this subject. The IOM has been asked to make recommendations about how to protect healthcare workers against swine-origin H1N1 influenza.

Up until the recent recession, it was advertisers who paid for most of your news. Not all of it " the cover price of the newspaper covered some of the costs, and of course there's the BBC " but publishing was able to be a truly profitable business because of advertisers paying for access to readers.

My husband and I are in our mid-'40s but already we are looking
forward to retirement. One reason is because we moved right down the
road from my retired parents who have shown us just how much fun two
old folks could have. Both are in relatively good health and enjoy
many different activities. But just this past year they've decided to
stop their annual vacation to St Maarten where they met up with
long-time friends for a week of celebration. Mother suffered a blood
clot that blocked circulation to her leg long enough to cause some
permanent damage. My father was also diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Here's the full text of the email sent by Boston police officer Justin Barrett to Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham in response to her criticism of the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Toyota Prius hybrid car has been something of a success in the US market (helped, of course, by various tax and other incentives, such as the ability to use HOV lanes in Virginia), and other manufacturers have introduced or are working on hybrid and fully electric vehicles. The Network World web site has an article by Nick Barber, describing a student project at MIT that aim to develop an all-electric vehicle starting from first principles.

Last week's report on residential construction provided more evidence that housing may be beginning to bottom. The headline evidence, noted by most media and economic pundits, is the rebound in housing starts over the past two months.

With the looming prospect of mass immunization against influenza, it's important to understand how vaccines work. To do this we must have a good understanding of adaptive immune defenses.

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