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Karabell's is the smartest approach I have seen lately. We should support national infrastructure programs like interstate highways and an integrated U.S. water program. Just a few such programs would put millions of people to work and benefit small and large businesses...
...shown to prolong the lives of people with heart disease. It has also been shown to stave off the onset of heart disease in healthy at-risk adults. But researchers who have broken out and analyzed the data on healthy female patients in these trials found that the lifesaving benefit, which extends to men, does not cross the gender divide. What's more, there's evidence that women are more likely than men to suffer some of the drugs' serious side effects, which can include memory loss, muscle pain and diabetes...
Slicing the Sex Data"There are millions of women on a drug with no known benefit and risks that are detrimental to their lifestyle - and no one is talking about it. Why?" asks Dr. Rita Redberg, a prominent cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco...
...lack of data, however, researchers like Dr. Scott Grundy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have long argued that statins should be prescribed to women at moderately high risk for heart disease. Grundy says the underrepresentation of women in drug trials does not discount statins' benefit; it results only in a failure to show a statistically significant effect. Grundy was one of the authors of the 2001 national guidelines for lowering cholesterol and the 2004 revisions that greatly expanded the use of statins - and were criticized because of his and other authors' ties to the drug...
...added benefit is Harvard’s familiarity with Dartmouth’s offense, which the Crimson has been anticipating in the week of practice...