This year’s flu season has been dominated by a more severe strain. Stephen Aronoff, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Temple outlines the best treatment. “All children over six months are eligible for vaccination, which is best early in the season since it takes time to respond. Still, it’s not too late to have your child vaccinated now. Since the virus is spread by sneezing and coughing, teach your child how to cover their face, using the arm, and wash their hands.

In Oregon, developers believe they’ve made a major breakthrough that solves two problems holding back the next level of geothermal development: creating reservoirs big enough for commercial production and holding down costs. Creating multiple reservoirs from a single well is key to making it economical, because drilling each well is so expensive, said Nicholas Davatzes, an expert in earth and environmental science at Temple, who helped develop a computer model describing the structure of the rock before it was fractured. 

Although the NHL lockout wiped out millions of dollars in revenue, some say the league won’t suffer too much because the top revenue-generating games will still be played. “The NHL saved the most valuable part of the season: the playoffs,” said Joel Maxcy, a sports economist at Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management. “I doubt there will be much of a hangover effect.”

Defying decades of investment history, ordinary Americans are selling stocks for a fifth year in a row. The trend doesn’t surprise Temple economist William Dunkelberg. “Investors have been pulling out of stocks for several years now and putting money into bonds,” Dunkelberg said. “This is probably the worst time to do it as bond prices are at record-high levels.”