Word: benign
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...announced one of those unfortunate measures last week when he followed several other major universities in implementing a staff hiring freeze. While this hiring freeze is deplorable in principle, as a practical matter, we are compelled to support it. As far as budget cuts go, this is a fairly benign one—halting growth is far preferable to reversing it, as through layoffs. FAS must make up the deficit somewhere, and the $10 million saved by the freeze constitute one sizeable step out of the woods. It could have been much worse.The catch is that it probably will...
...would not be unwise, or perhaps the test should be used for patients with indeterminate heart-disease risk, who may derive benefit from taking a statin. Longer-term trials are still needed, however, to show whether the benefits of statins outweigh their potential side effects - the drugs are relatively benign, but they are known in rare cases to cause debilitating side effects such as muscle weakness (which forced Bayer to pull its version off the market in 2001). There was no increase in side effects among JUPITER's study group, but because the trial was terminated early, researchers...
...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants—mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...
...study, which was led by Shumin Zhang, an assistant professor at the Medical School, contradicts earlier studies that suggested that massive caffeine consumption could increase the risk of benign breast disease...
...possible that consuming four or more cups of coffee per day may increase breast cancer risk in those with a history of benign breast disease...