Word: betas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when it seems groups are being forced to put out full-length albums with more songs than good ideas, the Beta Band's The Three E.P.s puts together three out-of-print EPs and reminds us of the value of that long-neglected format. No room for self-indulgent extraneous songs here. Each one of the three, Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos, is a perfectly-formed condensed collection of four songs; together, they point to a firecracker of talent ready to explode. Reminiscent of Gomez's Bring It On in its American...
Emcees Sienna R. Owens '00 and Naeemah A. White-Peppers '99 hosted a show that included poetry readings, dramatic monologues, speeches, dance, comedy and musical performances by Harvard students and alumni, as well as others from the area. Two fraternities represented at area colleges, Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma, also sent speakers...
...panel of 150 experts last week concluded that many congestive-heart-failure patients are not getting the best possible treatment. The experts recommend a regimen that includes digitalis and diuretics as well as two other key drugs, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, which are now underprescribed...
...turns out, however, that much of the damage caused by congestive heart failure occurs when the body overreacts to the chronic lack of blood. It responds by pumping out more and more adrenaline, which forces the ailing heart to work ever harder. Beta-blockers interrupt this destructive cycle, allowing the heart to stabilize...
Researchers hope it won't take too long to convince doctors that they can safely prescribe beta-blockers for congestive heart failure. "Fewer than 5% of these patients are now on beta-blockers," says Dr. Milton Packer, professor of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. "But if we could get 75% to 90% of them on the drugs, we'd be saving tens of thousands of lives...