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Feverish Fans

Jim Cosgrove Features

FACTS OF LIFE

People will put off going to the doctor if they're fans of a sports team that is playing well at the time. That's according to researchers at Harvard Medical School, who found that emergency-room visits throughout the Boston area rose and fell in direct proportion to the fortunes of the Red Sox last fall. The authors described how they determined the association between rising pennant fever and declining hospital visits in a letter published in the October Annals of Internal Medicine.

Source: USA Today, Sept. 26 Illustration by Tim Rauch

Jim Cosgrove

Jim Cosgrove

An image of the Sacred Heart in the Church of the Jesu in Rome

Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Next week, the Bishops of the United States will meet in Orlando and consecrate America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This week on Register Radio we are joined by Bishop Kevin Rhoades to explain the importance of the consecration and how we can all take part and then Register senior writer Zelda Caldwell tells us about the remarkable phenomenon of diocesan priests living in community.

Matthew Bunson, Shannon Mullen Register Radio

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