(U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. - The nearly 3,000 students who were vaccinated against influenza by the University this year may be less protected than they thought, since this year's nationally distributed flu vaccine is unusually ineffective at protecting against the most common flu viruses.
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The iPhone is about to get more than a little help from its friends. Any day now, Apple is expected to release a developer's kit that will allow independent programmers to create new applications for the device. While it is common for mainstream PC users to download third-party programs to their computers, it is relatively uncharted territory for average cell-phone users to do the same, observed American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Like the rumble of distant thunder, bird flu continues to spread across Asia, Africa and Europe. Although it's been out of the news lately in the United States, scientists say that avian influenza, as it's also known, remains a serious threat to human and animal health.