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USA TODAY back issues
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Media must educate, not panic, populace.(Public Health)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... In addition to alerting the public about the latest cases of swine flu, the press should be educating the populace about how pandemics are fueled largely by poverty and can be combated, asserts Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious, which examines how the mainstream media tells the story of...
Nose knows how to stave off infection.(H1N1)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... While there is no vaccine for H1N1 (swine flu) and no way to guarantee prevention against infection, one physician believes that there are simple and easy ways we all can reduce our susceptibility to infection. "Most flus enter our body through our noses, and the organ in our nose that is...
Parents can alleviate children's fears.(Swine Flu)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Parents should assess their personal feelings about the swine flu situation when they discuss the matter with children so they can determine what messages they want to communicate, advises Judith Myers-Walls, associate professor of child development at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind....
A 47,000,000-year-old skeleton.(SCIENCE SCENE)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... A 47,000,000-year-old skeleton that could be the "great-great-great aunt" of modern man recently was unveiled at New York's American Museum of Natural History. About the size of a small cat, this "best-ever preserved primate fossil" looks to be an important link in human evolution. Named...
The burgeoning field of "museomics".(SCIENCE SCENE)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... The burgeoning field of "museomics"--using improved methods for sampling DNA combined with the latest sequencing technology to analyze preserved museum samples--has set to work on studying the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, reports a team of international researchers that includes scientists...