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...central vision. The more serious, wet form occurs when abnormal blood vessels obscure vision. A study of more than 300 people with dry AMD published in last week's American Journal of Ophthalmology showed that those who were taking statins were half as likely to develop wet AMD. Taking aspirin--with or without a statin--worked almost as well...
...statin prescription just yet. "I would like to see more studies," says Dr. Jacque Duncan, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the latest study. Statins, though remarkably safe, can trigger side effects, like severe muscle and joint pain. Long-term use of aspirin increases the risk of internal bleeding. Moreover, it isn't clear why either statins or aspirin works against AMD; the leading hypothesis is that their ability to dampen inflammatory processes in the body...
...eponymous handheld? With the high rate of European mobile usage, RIM COO Larry Conlee says: "If it doesn't have phone functionality, it doesn't get started here." BlackBerries can be used as phones, but RIM knows that few make calls on them. - By Jim Ledbetter Take Two Aspirin ... German drug-and-chemical firm Bayer posted a €1.36 billion loss for 2003, the worst in its 141-year history, due to restructuring costs and weak sales. The sales slump will also hit its 2004 numbers...
...Rubin Method is considered a hugely important discovery in the field of statistics and beyond. The method centers on the proposition that an individual person is a cause and effect unit in and of himself. Rubin uses “The Aspirin Example” to explain his theory: If you have a headache and are wondering whether or not to take an aspirin, you are implicitly comparing two worlds, not at the moment you take the aspirin, but two hours from that point. This decision has nothing to do with the change in time...
...Aspirin. A well-known inflammation fighter, aspirin can cool reactions raging in heart arteries and in the colon. Similar agents are also showing promise in controlling inflammation in the brains of Alzheimer's patients...