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...reason that screening didn't appear to provide any health advantage, Wackers theorizes, may be that patients with diabetes (particularly the ones being monitored carefully in the study) are already benefiting from well controlled blood sugar - in patients, both with diabetes and without, high blood sugar is associated with increased heart risk. So, if diabetes patients are already being treated for potential heart risk factors before they become hazardous, screening becomes redundant...
...Some experts note that while the rate of heart disease in the people without diabetes may be improving - due in part to increasing efforts to lower patients' cholesterol and blood pressure, among other risk factors - diabetes patients who have already had heart attacks appear not to be benefiting as much from the same preventive measures, and continue to suffer and die from higher-than-average rates of heart problems...
...ways to make their books more relevant to the modern reader. For example, catchy design can make a scholarly work more accessible. Recently, the Press reissued the John Harvard Library, a series of American writings originally printed in the 1970s. Stormy blue-grey portraits of individual authors appear on the covers of each edition. The portraits, by contemporary artist Robert Carter, add energy to the old writings...
...meant to be my, and certainly isn’t, my exposé,” Kaplan says. “The characters are not Marlborough girls. I am not Becky Miller.” In fact, Kaplan had to disappoint people who were hoping to appear in her book, stressing that she was writing a novel. Kaplan is also reluctant to draw connections between “Hancock Park” and the popular “Gossip Girl” series or The A-List series, which all share similar settings. “I think...
...Executing this seemingly simple agenda is more complicated than it appears. Obama, as Bosworth intimated, has to let a decent interval pass after the U.N. reprimand lest he appear to be caving in to pressure from Pyongyang. He can't dawdle, though. North Korea continues to be a serial proliferator of missile and nuclear technology. More sanctions, the diplomatic crowd argues, aren't obtainable, as the recent U.N. exercise showed, and in any event they don't work against a regime that seems to enjoy pain. The only way to get a grip on the danger the North poses...