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...Hard to argue with findings like that, but Woloshin and his co-authors offer a thought experiment: Imagine every single person who contracts Disease X dies of it at age 70. If you receive your diagnosis at age 67, you'll be gone well before the 10-year threshold is reached. Now imagine a new technology that spots early signs of the disease at age 57. If everyone gets the test, the 10-year survival rate soars to 100%, but no one in fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Get Misled by Health Statistics | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...think it happened in the same way that Obama's election happened - young people. They are inviting their friends over for dinner. They're growing their own food. They are making their own bread. For me to be around this age group is revitalizing. (See pictures of avant-garde gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local-Food Maven Alice Waters | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...that contributed to the children's learning deficits or whether it was an underlying condition that may have required surgery and precipitated the learning problems. Of the more than 5,000 babies studied, 593 needed at least one surgery and just over 100 infants needed more than two before age 3. There may have been something unusual about this population of children that made them vulnerable to learning problems and required them to undergo surgery and anesthesia. "The data we have are very preliminary," says Dr. Randall Flick, Wilder's co-author at the Mayo Clinic. "It really doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Anesthesia in Infancy Linked to Later Disabilities | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...authorities' argument that naked hiking should be banned because it could be detrimental to children, Kettiger responds with incredulity. "Oh, please. In this day and age, when kids have access to the Internet and where images of naked people are on every newsstand, how can they be shocked?" he asks. "Is there really a child out there who hasn't seen a naked person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Reason to Visit Switzerland: Hiking in the Nude | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...Urban Affairs, who before entering government led a civil rights movement advancing minority and feminist causes. The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amara sees official ethnic statistics as dangerous, not helpful. "Our republic must not become a mosaic of communities," she says, rejecting calls to add race to the gender, age and occupational categories contained in official data researchers use to study French society. "No one should again have to wear a yellow star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should France Count Its Minority Population? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

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