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...these concerns, Bedrosian says her team was rigorous in its statistical analysis and feels confident enough in the numbers to begin using the information to help patients decide whether a preventive mastectomy is right for them. "We looked at this in multiple different ways, and we got the same answer every time. And the results make good clinical sense. That adds another level of reassurance," she says. "Our hope is that when women hear the numbers, they will take a second look and decide not to go forward with a preventive mastectomy [in their healthy breast...
This shift presents a logistical puzzle, because there's no way the engineers can make a single Amazon shipment to the far reaches of, say, Alaska economical. The answer might surprise you: UPS and FedEx are now outsourcing delivery to a longtime rival, the U.S. Postal Service. "The postal service is already mandated by Congress to stop at every house," Caldwell says. "So why not outsource that last-mile delivery?" In other words, let USPS handle the money losers...
...Mara is at an age where she starts asking questions. She’s too young to understand some things, but I’d like to answer her questions,” Marques says. “And then I decided that before I forget, before it’s too late, before I don’t have the energy, I wanted to write...
...from Haiti’s lone airstrip. Challenges would be specific, yet varied, such as how to maximize the efficiency of doctors arriving and departing from Port-Au-Prince or create a more portable and cost-effective way to purify drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa. If the answer to a challenge is not found, however, HarvardforHumanity would also solicit and reward entries that explain what is needed for further progress on the goal. Thus, the winning entry becomes a new challenge posed by HarvardforHumanity and even technical failure result in a step forward for the overall challenge goal...
...ignored. If the debate about vaccine safety is settled - vaccines don't cause autism; they don't injure children; they are the pillar of modern public health - then why are so many parents reconsidering vaccinating their children? The answer has to do with our era's strained relationship with scientific truth, our tendency to place more faith in psychological truths than scientific ones. McCarthy's emergence - the Playmate turned pseudoscientist, the fart-joke teller cum mother warrior - can make one feel nostalgic for the time when celebs turned up on talk shows only to hawk their flicks or books...