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Former Crimson ace John Birtwell ’01 was named the Detroit Tigers’ Minor League Co-Pitcher of the Year last September after a 58-game relief stint with Class A Western Michigan. Birtwell went 7-2 with a 1.59 ERA and struck out 101 batters in 79.1 innings… With Lentz back in the lineup and a sudden, unprecedented logjam at catcher, Walsh has worked Mann out at first base and Lentz in left field to make a platoon situation possible… The Crimson will open its season during spring break against several Florida...
DIED. JOE FOSS, 87, Medal of Honor--winning World War II pilot, Governor of South Dakota, commissioner of the American Football League and head of the National Rifle Association; at a hospital near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Dubbed "America's No. 1 Ace" on the cover of LIFE magazine for shooting down 26 fighters and bombers in the battle for guadalcanal, he later drew controversy as a gun supporter. in 1990 he told TIME, "All guns are good guns...
...probably be reversed in a few years by more research. With more than 42,000 participants--including men, women, blacks and whites--the NHLBI investigation is the largest ever conducted in the study of high blood pressure. The goal was to compare some of the newer antihypertension treatments--like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers--with an older group of drugs called thiazide diuretics. Although each of these medications had been shown to lower blood pressure better than a placebo, they had never really been tested against one another. "When the newer drugs came onboard, they had some hypothetical advantages...
...diuretics turned out to be just as effective as ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers in treating hypertension, and were associated with fewer complications. That's good news for patients, since diuretics are cheap: they cost about $25 a year, in contrast to $250 for ACE inhibitors and $500 for calcium channel blockers. Doctors have also learned that they can prescribe diuretics in much smaller doses than they did 20 or 30 years ago, which means the drugs trigger fewer side effects like dizziness...
There are, to be sure, some exceptions. A doctor might favor an ACE inhibitor over a diuretic, for example, when treating a diabetic patient with kidney disease, since ACE inhibitors help prevent renal failure. But all other things being equal, diuretics should be the first-line medical treatment--that is, if eating better and exercising more aren't enough to bring down your blood pressure on their...