Nasal Flu Vaccine Nears Market Reach
Aviron Inc unveiled FluMist, a nasal spray flu vaccine showing 18 percent to 28 percent fewer illness days and 23 percent to 27 percent fewer fevers in healthy adults, with FDA approval needed and potential market in 2000 2001.
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Chicago
J. Leighton Read
Aviron Inc
Mountain View
Calif
Military conducts big Y2K test
The Pentagon runs the largest-ever simultaneous test of computer systems to ensure Year 2000 readiness for military supply chains. With one day left in a week-long exercise, officials said three minor glitches were found and fixed in the vast logistics network. A duplicate parallel processing environment simulated the week after February 28, 2000 to verify resilience.
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Group blasts teen pot use in new report
Washington: the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University reports that teens who smoke marijuana are far more likely to progress to harder drugs. The group opposes legalization and says teen experimentation should not be a casual rite of passage. Joseph Califano calls teen marijuana use a dangerous game of Russian roulette.
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Washington
Joseph Califano
National Center On Addiction and Substance Abuse
Columbia University
E-ticket milestone as half of travelers use electronic tickets
ARLINGTON Virginia AP after years of pushing for ticketless travel the airline industry reaches a milestone about half of all air travelers now use computer generated electronic tickets. United and US Airways report surging e tickets with over 50 percent of May and late June sales.
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Arlington, Va
Stan Quintana
Quintana
US Airways
Washington
Reagan National Airport
Charlotte
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Teen undergoes hemispherectomy to halt seizures
In Baltimore at Johns Hopkins, 15-year-old Amber Ramirez had left-hemisphere removal to stop Rasmussen's disease after years of debilitating seizures. Surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson led a 12-hour operation, risking speech loss but offering a chance at survival and future rehabilitation.
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Baltimore
Amber Ramirez
Johns Hopkins Medical Center
Amber
Rasmussen
Lincoln, Neb
Tye
Sei
Zures
New Hampshire teen dies in glacier fall
A New Hampshire teenager taking a mountaineering course fell into a deep icy hole on Matanuska Glacier near Anchorage. Thomas John Nazzaro, 17, from Durham, vanished Sunday while fetching water as 11 students and three instructors traveled 80 miles from Anchorage. Search attempts using a 100 foot rescue rappel and a 250 foot video probe failed to locate him, and the operation was suspended. The class was part of a month long program by the National Outdoor Leadership School.
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Anchorage
Alaska
New Hampshire
Thomas John Nazzaro
Durham
N.H
Matanuska
National Guard
Rae Arno
Nazzaro
National Outdoor Leadership School
Chugach Mountains
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