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With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers – Advil, Tylenol, aspirin – at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system. Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., professor of Environmental Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and of Pediatrics, has been studying this issue for years and recently presented his latest findings to an international conference on inflammatory diseases. (http://bioactivelipidsconf.wayne.edu/) “What we’ve been saying all along, and continue to stress, is that it’s probably not a...

Posted on Thu, Nov. 13, 2003 L.A. Dodgers' Gagne Wins Cy Young Award RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK - Eric Gagne of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first relief pitcher in 11 years to win a Cy Young Award, easily beating San Francisco's Jason Schmidt for the National League honor. Gagne, who converted all 55 of his save opportunities, received 28 of 32 first-place votes and 146 points in balloting released Thursday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. It was just the ninth time a reliever won a Cy Young, the first in the NL since...

Or, the relievers most likely to cause fire insurance upgrades...for their own teams... If you could put a relief pitcher on trial for arson, Todd Van Poppel would prove an intriguing defendant. No jury in this land would convict the Texas Rangers' reliever of goldbricking; whatever it is that may leave him rated as a so-so pitcher when at last he hangs it up, sloth will not be part of the indictment. If anything, any trial for trying to torch the joint and make it resemble an accident would bring in a hung jury. For the defence: Van Poppel gets...