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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Author of Rich Dad on the Fed and saving money
This is an old video, but this is a guy who got it right.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Rich Dad - the CASHFLOW Clubs.
* Hi, I'm Robert Kiyosaki
* and this is Kim Kiyosaki.
* Welcome to the CASHFLOW Clubs.
* Personally I think it's a great investment of Your time.
* It's best to invest in Your mind before
* You invest Your money into stock market or any market.
* Because ultimately is Your financial IQ that makes money.
* I want to talk about how we developed this game.
* Back in 1994 Kim and I retired.
* We had enough money coming in.
* We were out of the Rat Race.
* We had nothing else to do.
* I was 47, she was 37.
* - We had a lot of people coming to us and say:
* How did You retired? How did You do it?
* We were going around teaching people how we did it
* and we sayd - there must be a better way.
* - In 1994 we started to develop this game.
* One for financial education.
* One to share what my Rich Dad teached me.
* But more importantly we saw this financial crisis coming where we are right now.
* And the way to out of this financial mess is not to hope that someone will save You.
* The best way out of this mess is to change yourself, save yourself.
* But change yourself and don't expect economy to change.
* - We created the game because it was also a way
* where people could actually teach another people
* and it's done in a fun environment.
* The CASHFLOW Clubs, which we would like You to come and participate in,
* it's a place where like minded people come together to learn,
* to mentor each other, to learn together, to grow together and it's a create environment.
* If that's what You want, the I would recommend to come into these clubs
* and really learn expand Your financial IQ.
* - We have CASHFLOW 101 and this is CASHFLOW 202.
* When we first developed the board game they were one game,
* combined 101 and 202.
* It was really too difficult, so we had to break it up to 101 and 202.
* One of the benefits coming to the club and going through the 10 steps
* is that You have to learn 101 and 202.
* Not only that, You go online and challenge other people throughout the world.
* That is the real world.
* That's why we recommend introduction to the CASHFLOW clubs,
* but also check it out, 10 times.
* I hear so many people who say: I played Your game once.
* Well You don't learn the game of golf by playing it once.
* You know - practice, practice, practice.
* It's people teaching people, sharing information.
* That's why we designed this game.
* - Another reason to play the game over and over is,
* because Your financial situation changes
* from week to week, month to month as ours does.
* When You are playing the game You are going to see new things every time,
* plus the people You are playing with.
* Watching their behavior, what they are doing and how they are playing the game
* also will have impact on Your learning.
* So again, it's a great place to learn.
* What a lot of people don't know is that
* the CASHFLOW game was the first product that we created for the Rich Dad Company.
* This is were we started because
* we thought this was information that people really needed and wanted.
* Our mission from day one is very simply
* to have people play that CASHFLOW game because we see lives transformed.
* - It's people teaching people. We don't sell investments.
* I know a lot of people use the CASHFLOW game as a lead generator
* to sell You their real estate deal, stock deal, mutual fond deal.
* That's not what we do.
* Our primary motive is financial education
* so that You can make sounder financial investments
* by knowing what's good advice and what's bad advice.
* Because it's not one shoot fits all.
* Sometimes what's good advice for me may be bad for You.
* Please remember Rich Dad Company is purely financial education.
* That's what we are here to do.
* - We want just encourage You to come and attend a CASHFLOW Club,
* play the game, be around like minded people.
* - At least 10 times.
* - At least 10 times and be around people who want to improve their financial lives.
* That's all we are about.
Friday, September 18, 2009
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
More Incentives Don't Lead to Better Performance
More Incentives Don't Lead to Better Performance
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. The interesting findings he presented,
As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses worked as they would be expected; the higher the pay, the better the performance.But once the task called for "even rudimentary cognitive skill," a larger reward "led to poorer performance.
Now, enjoy the video:
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. The interesting findings he presented,
As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses worked as they would be expected; the higher the pay, the better the performance.But once the task called for "even rudimentary cognitive skill," a larger reward "led to poorer performance.
Now, enjoy the video:
SEO Crash Course by Matt Cutts
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This is specially for WordPress blogs, but the tips apply to all CMS you adopt for your business.
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This is specially for WordPress blogs, but the tips apply to all CMS you adopt for your business.
10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends | Rocky Fu
10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends | Rocky Fu: "10 Excellent Online Tools to Identify Trends
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Executives and business decision-makers love to see the trends and catch the trends, use trends to guide their decisions. This post would introduce 10 handy trend tools which are very helpful doing online research.
1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends
2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast
4. Facebook Lexicon – Facebook Social Trends
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool
8. Trendrr – Trends across Social Graphs and Networks
9. Google Checkout Trends – Online Sales Trends
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool
1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends
Google Trends
With Google Trends, you can compare up to 5 topics you are interested in and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over a period of time. It also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and regions where they are searched for.
What can you do with Google Trends
Very common use with Google Trends is in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Check out the search trends. you may not be interested in your company’s search operations, but Google Trends is a good tool to show you the trends of online users’ interests on a specific topic.
How to Use Google Trends
Google has one page giving detailed information about Google Trends. This is what you need to know to use it:
* news-reference-volume graph is just below the search-volume graph, which shows you the no. of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular term,
* Google Trends labels the graph and displays the headline of an auto-selected Google News story written near the time of a spike it detects in the volume of news stories for a particular term.
* Only English headlines are displayed so far.
* Google Trends displays the top cities, regions, and languages in which people searched for the first term you entered. You can select the one you are most interested in; but, keep in mind it might the data might not be enough to show if the search volume is too low in a specific region.
* Use comma to separate up to 5 different topics to compare e.g. “internet, online”
* To see how many searches contained either terms, separate those terms with a vertical bar: “|”. For example, to determine how many searches contained the terms “internet” or “online,” just enter “internet | online”
* You can use parentheses for multi-word terms.
* You can use the minus sign to exclude terms. e.g. you want to see the trends for “marketing” but not “email marketing”, search “marketing-email”
More on Google Trends:
* Mothers Day + Google Trends = Cash
* Using Google Trends to fine-tune your news website
* Daily Google Hot Trends (US only)
2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends
seasonality forecast
It’s a tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs; you see see the trends and forecast seasonality patterns of search queries. As shown above, you can see the actual (red), forecast (blue), and Conf Interval.
It’s kinda similar to Google Trends tool; however, the queries you can check is quite limited, you input a keyword and if available, this tool would show you one or a few terms you can forecast the seasonality.
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast – Forecast the impression count and demographic predictions
keywords forecast
Keyword Forecast is another tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs that forecasts the search volume and demographic predictions of your selected list of keywords. The difference from the above mentioned keyword forecast tool is, this one shows the actual search volume trends only and enables you to compare different terms.
Simply enter the keywords separated by semi-colons to try out. You can product the output in flash, image, or text format. The demographic predictions graph is quite interesting and helpful:
demographic predictions
4. Facebook Lexicon: Facebook Social Trends
facebook lexicon
I introduced Facebook’s trends tool Lexicon days ago. You can refer to that post for details. ReadWriteWeb and MarketingPilgrim both have a good introduction to Lexicon that you can digest. Someone set up a Facebook Lexicon Blog too which does a lot of trends comparison.
In general, Facebook Lexicon is a nice tool to track Facebook communities’ interests.
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter
twitter trends
I’ve been using Twitter for a while though I don’t tweet a lot. But surprisingly, I recently found many local Singapore companies trying out this tool. If you still don’t have an idea what it is, its own introduction is quite self-explainable:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool.
Twist is a tool that enables you to see the trends in Twitter. It checks mentions of the queried terms in Twitters’ messages and show the graph over time.
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends Search
trendpedia screenshot
With Trendpedia, you can find out the trends by searching blogs in various languages (sad, no Chinese, why?).
Trendpedia finds the articles online that talk about your topics. Trendpedia organizes the articles in a trendline that shows the popularity of the topic over time — you can track a topic’s trendline from three months ago up to today.
Trendline is the number of blog posts posted per day that talk about the trends you search.
How To Use Trendpedia
* Enter one or more topics to search trends; Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.
* You can search and track trends today, yesterday, last week, or over the last three months.
* The trends graphics display your trendlines and a total trends pie chart (today’s total Buzz break-down).
* “Advanced search” feature is for more targeted topics, as shown below:
trendpedia advanced search
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool
blogpulse for blog trends
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs from Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It has a similar search UI as Trendpedia:
blogpulse
which one is better? I leave that to you to judge.
8. Trendrr – Identify Trends across Social Graphs and Networks
trendrr
You can use Trendrr to track data and identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, and track engagement metrics.
What can you Do with Trendrr
* Monitor the popularity of your brands or products
* Track just how many people are favoriting the latest video.
* Compare the popularity of anything.
* Share about interesting data or trends you’ve identified
* Trendrr yourself (yes, I’m using Tren
Trendrr is not only a tool to identify and track trends but also a community for trends fans. The interface is not as simple as Google Trends or Lexicon, but it is indeed a powerful tool for trends research. Find out more about Trendrr here, here, and here.
9. Google Checkout Trends
checkout trends
Google Checkout Trends aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants and charts it in a matter of seconds. See how popular a brand product of a particular product category is, and compare it with a similar product. Getting a feel with this tool about the seasonality of a particular product category is helpful to guide your similar product online marketing efforts.
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool
indeed job trends tool
Finding out the job trends is helpful to your HR strategies. Indeed’s Job Trends is simple and easy to use:
Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms.
You can choose the absolute (above image) scale or relative (below) scale to see the trends:
job trends
Try out these online trends tools yourself and share your findings below. And, use them to guide your decision making and actions; do not completely reply on them.
Share and Enjoy:"
by Rocky Fu on May 9, 2008
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Executives and business decision-makers love to see the trends and catch the trends, use trends to guide their decisions. This post would introduce 10 handy trend tools which are very helpful doing online research.
1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends
2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast
4. Facebook Lexicon – Facebook Social Trends
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool
8. Trendrr – Trends across Social Graphs and Networks
9. Google Checkout Trends – Online Sales Trends
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool
1. Google Trends – Google Search Trends
Google Trends
With Google Trends, you can compare up to 5 topics you are interested in and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over a period of time. It also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and regions where they are searched for.
What can you do with Google Trends
Very common use with Google Trends is in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Check out the search trends. you may not be interested in your company’s search operations, but Google Trends is a good tool to show you the trends of online users’ interests on a specific topic.
How to Use Google Trends
Google has one page giving detailed information about Google Trends. This is what you need to know to use it:
* news-reference-volume graph is just below the search-volume graph, which shows you the no. of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular term,
* Google Trends labels the graph and displays the headline of an auto-selected Google News story written near the time of a spike it detects in the volume of news stories for a particular term.
* Only English headlines are displayed so far.
* Google Trends displays the top cities, regions, and languages in which people searched for the first term you entered. You can select the one you are most interested in; but, keep in mind it might the data might not be enough to show if the search volume is too low in a specific region.
* Use comma to separate up to 5 different topics to compare e.g. “internet, online”
* To see how many searches contained either terms, separate those terms with a vertical bar: “|”. For example, to determine how many searches contained the terms “internet” or “online,” just enter “internet | online”
* You can use parentheses for multi-word terms.
* You can use the minus sign to exclude terms. e.g. you want to see the trends for “marketing” but not “email marketing”, search “marketing-email”
More on Google Trends:
* Mothers Day + Google Trends = Cash
* Using Google Trends to fine-tune your news website
* Daily Google Hot Trends (US only)
2. adCenter Search Volume Seasonality Trends
seasonality forecast
It’s a tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs; you see see the trends and forecast seasonality patterns of search queries. As shown above, you can see the actual (red), forecast (blue), and Conf Interval.
It’s kinda similar to Google Trends tool; however, the queries you can check is quite limited, you input a keyword and if available, this tool would show you one or a few terms you can forecast the seasonality.
3. adCenter Keyword Forecast – Forecast the impression count and demographic predictions
keywords forecast
Keyword Forecast is another tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs that forecasts the search volume and demographic predictions of your selected list of keywords. The difference from the above mentioned keyword forecast tool is, this one shows the actual search volume trends only and enables you to compare different terms.
Simply enter the keywords separated by semi-colons to try out. You can product the output in flash, image, or text format. The demographic predictions graph is quite interesting and helpful:
demographic predictions
4. Facebook Lexicon: Facebook Social Trends
facebook lexicon
I introduced Facebook’s trends tool Lexicon days ago. You can refer to that post for details. ReadWriteWeb and MarketingPilgrim both have a good introduction to Lexicon that you can digest. Someone set up a Facebook Lexicon Blog too which does a lot of trends comparison.
In general, Facebook Lexicon is a nice tool to track Facebook communities’ interests.
5. Twist – Trends in Twitter
twitter trends
I’ve been using Twitter for a while though I don’t tweet a lot. But surprisingly, I recently found many local Singapore companies trying out this tool. If you still don’t have an idea what it is, its own introduction is quite self-explainable:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool.
Twist is a tool that enables you to see the trends in Twitter. It checks mentions of the queried terms in Twitters’ messages and show the graph over time.
6. Trendpedia – Blog Trends Search
trendpedia screenshot
With Trendpedia, you can find out the trends by searching blogs in various languages (sad, no Chinese, why?).
Trendpedia finds the articles online that talk about your topics. Trendpedia organizes the articles in a trendline that shows the popularity of the topic over time — you can track a topic’s trendline from three months ago up to today.
Trendline is the number of blog posts posted per day that talk about the trends you search.
How To Use Trendpedia
* Enter one or more topics to search trends; Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.
* You can search and track trends today, yesterday, last week, or over the last three months.
* The trends graphics display your trendlines and a total trends pie chart (today’s total Buzz break-down).
* “Advanced search” feature is for more targeted topics, as shown below:
trendpedia advanced search
7. BlogPulse from Nielsen – Another Blog Trends Tool
blogpulse for blog trends
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs from Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It has a similar search UI as Trendpedia:
blogpulse
which one is better? I leave that to you to judge.
8. Trendrr – Identify Trends across Social Graphs and Networks
trendrr
You can use Trendrr to track data and identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, and track engagement metrics.
What can you Do with Trendrr
* Monitor the popularity of your brands or products
* Track just how many people are favoriting the latest video.
* Compare the popularity of anything.
* Share about interesting data or trends you’ve identified
* Trendrr yourself (yes, I’m using Tren
Trendrr is not only a tool to identify and track trends but also a community for trends fans. The interface is not as simple as Google Trends or Lexicon, but it is indeed a powerful tool for trends research. Find out more about Trendrr here, here, and here.
9. Google Checkout Trends
checkout trends
Google Checkout Trends aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants and charts it in a matter of seconds. See how popular a brand product of a particular product category is, and compare it with a similar product. Getting a feel with this tool about the seasonality of a particular product category is helpful to guide your similar product online marketing efforts.
10. Indeed Job Trends Tool
indeed job trends tool
Finding out the job trends is helpful to your HR strategies. Indeed’s Job Trends is simple and easy to use:
Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms.
You can choose the absolute (above image) scale or relative (below) scale to see the trends:
job trends
Try out these online trends tools yourself and share your findings below. And, use them to guide your decision making and actions; do not completely reply on them.
Share and Enjoy:"
Saturday, September 05, 2009
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Ten Things You Don't Know (but should) About the H1N1 Virus
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Ten Things You Don't Know (but should) About the H1N1 Virus
http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/3256
* It could get bad. Really bad. While the Centers for Disease Control calculate that the number of deaths over the next two years could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand, the World Health Organization believes H1N1 is still in the "early stages" of a new pandemic. They estimate that 2 billion people (one-third of the world's population) could be infected over the next two years.
* Older people are less affected by H1N1 because they've had it - many times. Dr. Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a Big Think expert, says people over the age of 55 have built up an immunity against swine flu. Why? The viruses that circulated 50 years ago are more closely related to the swine-origin H1N1 viruses than are present day seasonal H1N1 viruses. So exposure to the earlier viruses gives them protection.
* Screening for fevers at airports might be a waste. Unlike SARS, a surprisingly low percentage of H1N1 patients actually suffer from fevers, says Big Think panel expert Barry Bloom of Harvard School of Public Health.
* Contrary to popular belief, the injectable H1N1 vaccine is not a live virus. So says U. Penn's Dr. Neil Fishman. The injection generates an immune response to make the person feel like he has the flu. The nasal vaccine, on the other hand, is a live virus, but the virus is mutated so it can only replicate at lower temperatures (at the front of the nose). Once it makes its way into a persons lungs, it can't replicate.
* The vaccine won't be one prick. Scientists believe the H1N1 vaccine will be most effective if administered in two doses that are three weeks apart. That won't get you out of your regular seasonal vaccine, though, which has to be in a separate dosage. Alternative medicine practitioners are getting in the act. Dr. Arun Bhasme, the vice president of Central Council of Homeopathy in New Delhi, claims that homeopathy can treat H1N1 patients more rapidly than any other vaccine. There are seven to ten drugs (including Glesemicum, Breionia Alba, Aresenicum naplus and Beladona) on the radar.
* Tamiflu might hurt children more than it helps. Researchers at Oxford conducted trials of the treatment, which included 248 infected kids. For children under 12, the side-effects outweighed the benefits. 51% reported side-effects (of those, 31% felt sick, 24% suffered headaches, 21% had stomach aches). Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's H1N1 expert questions the overuse of Tamiflu: "The threshold for getting Tamiflu should be quite high."
* Pregnant women face a dangerous dilemma: they are at the highest risk of becoming ill from swine flu, but nobody in that group will have a chance to test the vaccine. Why? Testing any type of vaccine or drug on pregnant women (and their babies) poses an ethical dilemma - and always has. Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins, says, "Medicine is flying blind in many cases. Many of the drugs that women take in pregnancy because they're seriously ill, we just have no evidence what the impact is for them or what the impact will be for their babies."
* The best place to go for information? There are tons of websites out there with handy tips, statistics and roundups of - sometimes false - information. For a comprehensive one-stop shop, Dr. Fishman recommends Flu.gov.
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Posted to michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us
Ten Things You Don't Know (but should) About the H1N1 Virus
http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/3256
* It could get bad. Really bad. While the Centers for Disease Control calculate that the number of deaths over the next two years could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand, the World Health Organization believes H1N1 is still in the "early stages" of a new pandemic. They estimate that 2 billion people (one-third of the world's population) could be infected over the next two years.
* Older people are less affected by H1N1 because they've had it - many times. Dr. Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a Big Think expert, says people over the age of 55 have built up an immunity against swine flu. Why? The viruses that circulated 50 years ago are more closely related to the swine-origin H1N1 viruses than are present day seasonal H1N1 viruses. So exposure to the earlier viruses gives them protection.
* Screening for fevers at airports might be a waste. Unlike SARS, a surprisingly low percentage of H1N1 patients actually suffer from fevers, says Big Think panel expert Barry Bloom of Harvard School of Public Health.
* Contrary to popular belief, the injectable H1N1 vaccine is not a live virus. So says U. Penn's Dr. Neil Fishman. The injection generates an immune response to make the person feel like he has the flu. The nasal vaccine, on the other hand, is a live virus, but the virus is mutated so it can only replicate at lower temperatures (at the front of the nose). Once it makes its way into a persons lungs, it can't replicate.
* The vaccine won't be one prick. Scientists believe the H1N1 vaccine will be most effective if administered in two doses that are three weeks apart. That won't get you out of your regular seasonal vaccine, though, which has to be in a separate dosage. Alternative medicine practitioners are getting in the act. Dr. Arun Bhasme, the vice president of Central Council of Homeopathy in New Delhi, claims that homeopathy can treat H1N1 patients more rapidly than any other vaccine. There are seven to ten drugs (including Glesemicum, Breionia Alba, Aresenicum naplus and Beladona) on the radar.
* Tamiflu might hurt children more than it helps. Researchers at Oxford conducted trials of the treatment, which included 248 infected kids. For children under 12, the side-effects outweighed the benefits. 51% reported side-effects (of those, 31% felt sick, 24% suffered headaches, 21% had stomach aches). Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's H1N1 expert questions the overuse of Tamiflu: "The threshold for getting Tamiflu should be quite high."
* Pregnant women face a dangerous dilemma: they are at the highest risk of becoming ill from swine flu, but nobody in that group will have a chance to test the vaccine. Why? Testing any type of vaccine or drug on pregnant women (and their babies) poses an ethical dilemma - and always has. Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins, says, "Medicine is flying blind in many cases. Many of the drugs that women take in pregnancy because they're seriously ill, we just have no evidence what the impact is for them or what the impact will be for their babies."
* The best place to go for information? There are tons of websites out there with handy tips, statistics and roundups of - sometimes false - information. For a comprehensive one-stop shop, Dr. Fishman recommends Flu.gov.
Tags: All Posts healthcare h1n1
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