Aging, Telomeres and Torpor
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Why aren't they hibernating?
What do aging, telomeres and torpor have in common? It may be that torpor slows the process of aging.
Aging is directly linked to telomere lengths. Telomeres, the caps on the end of …

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Should Health Care Workers Be Mandated to Have the H1N1 Vaccine?

Submitted by admin on Monday, October 19 2009No Comment

If as health care workers, we have an ethical obligation to do all we can to protect our patients from harm, should we then be obligated to receive the H1N1 vaccine? Consider all the patients we come in contact with in our offices who have respiratory infections. Isn’t it important for us as providers to take even the simplest of precautions such as washing our hands, before we see our next patients, to minimize the chance of infection? Why shouldn’t we then be mandated to receive a vaccine that will help prevent us from getting infected and thus transmitting it to others?

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