PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday March 18, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday March 18, 2005

New National Survey Shows Almost a Third of Second Medical Opinions Result in Different Treatments

According to Harris Interactive, more than a quarter of U-S adults report that they or a member of their family received a second medical opinion from a doctor in the past five years. In the majority of cases, this second opinion either confirmed the initial diagnosis or treatment, or while different, did not change the treatment. However, in fully 30 percent of cases where a second opinion was obtained, the diagnosis differed from the original, and as a result, the treatment or care was different from what it would have been without the second opinion.

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New Study Shows Flu Virus Makes Itself at Home

It only takes one child coming home with the flu for the virus to spread to phones, doorknobs and nearly 60 percent of surfaces in a household, according to a new study published by the Journal of Infection. The study, conducted by researchers at The University of Arizona, studied the presence of Influenza A virus, the virus most commonly associated with the flu, in day care centers and in the homes of families with children enrolled in the programs. In the centers, researchers found Influenza A on 53 percent of surfaces tested during the spring. In homes, during March 2003, where one child had the flu, the number was higher -- 59 percent of all surfaces tested positive for the virus.

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Overstock.com Auction Begins Tomorrow for Babe Ruth's First Professional Baseball Contract With the Boston Red Sox

The original glass plate negatives of Babe Ruth's first professional baseball contract with the Boston Red Sox will go up for auction, March 18th, on Overstock.com Auctions (www.overstock.com) at 3:00 pm Eastern time.

At the turn of the century, the American League Baseball Club archived player contracts, including Ruth's, on glass plate negatives and commonly destroyed the original paper copy. Pulled directly from the American League office, Ruth's Red Sox contract from 1916-1917 spans four plates and is the only known record of his contract in existence. Detailed in the contract are Ruth's $3,500 annual salary and a virtually unattainable version of his signature using his formal name, George H. Ruth, Jr.

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PRNewswire -- March 18

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