At least five babies in the U.S. killed by Coxsackie virus, CDC says

ATLANTA - A common virus traditionally viewed as mild killed at least five U.S. infants last year, government health officials said.

The five deaths mark the first time an infection was found to be fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tens of thousands of children get the virus each year, but it seldom causes illness, and then usually mild cases. Young children, with immature immune systems, are at the greatest danger from the virus, called Coxsackievirus B1.

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You should always check to make sure the medicines you get are the medicines you’re prescribed. Dorothy Enriquez learned this lesson the hard way when she began taking the leukemia drugs that CVS gave her instead of her actual prescription. Not only did the pharmacy give her the wrong drug, but at several times the recommended dose for someone who actually has leukemia.

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Simon Crerar
women.timesonline.co.ukJordan’s baby daughter Princess Tiaamii joins a long list of children doomed to playground ridicule by their celebrity parents
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Boston’s Children’s Hospital bills itself as the hospital for children — and now it’s also the hospital for children who want a sex change, a procedure some critics are calling “barbaric.”
Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric specialist at the hospital, has launched a clinic for transgendered kids — boys who feel like girls, girls who want to be boys — and he’s opening his doors to patients as young as 7.

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Buy used and use cash

Back in November 2006 we wrote How much of your car should you finance? Zero percent. Back then, a month after we released our forecast of a recession due to start at the end of Q4 2007, the housing bubble fueled economy was only just starting to wind down, and the mainstream press was still in denial about the coming post housing bubble bust. Now that the recession has arrived our advice to buy a car with cash instead of financing is getting a whole lot easier to follow – if you also took our advice and saved cash, too.
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By CAROL SANDLER

When we longed for the coming of what we once liked to call the New Man, don’t you sometimes think we should have been more careful what we wished for?

Back then, we thought we knew what we wanted. Moreover, what we thought we wanted didn’t sound unreasonable.

Put-upon women - run ragged by Neanderthal demands that we perform in the office, kitchen and bedroom - believed that if our partners could just be kicked up the backside of their latent sensitivity, they’d graduate from cavemen to soul-mates, and our lives would be that much easier for it.

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