Word: flu
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...talking bear, we're talking crash - a steady slide that started in March and is only picking up speed at year's end. All fall, traders talked about the need for "capitulation"; now they're calling it panic, and it's going around Wall Street like an Asian flu...
...change comes in the form of new privacy rules, designed to protect individual medical records from the prying eyes of insurance companies, employers and medical personnel (and the weird guy down the street who's always asking about your latest flu shot). The new safeguards, which President Clinton announced Wednesday, are the result of years of discussion - in Washington and among the nation's consumers - over the best way to keep private medical records private in an increasingly public-access world. When the rules, which were initially mandated by Congress, take effect in two years, every patient will be able...
There is an epidemic spreading across Harvard's student population. It is vast, quick moving and merciless. And no, I'm not talking about last week's stomach flu. I am talking about yarn people. Yes, you know exactly what I'm referring to: knitting...
PRENASAL DRIP INVENTOR: MURRAY GROSSAN, M.D. Kids are always sticking stuff up their nose, so they might as well try something good for 'em, right? The Grossan Nasal Irrigator, a (yikes) pulsating nasal douche, attaches to a WaterPik to clean the area where a common cold becomes a raging flu. Yes, a few people have complained of discomfort, but nasal irrigation is a staple of traditional Indian medicine, and it does improve ciliary function and keep sinus tissue moist...
...high demand and low supply of flu vaccine this season, University Health Services (UHS) will be offering the preventative treatment to high-risk patients only...