Word: betas
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...comes word of new hope in the form of an old prescription drug. In a study of 2,647 patients in the Jan. 2 issue of Lancet, researchers found that treating folks who have mild to moderate heart failure with medications called beta-blockers lowered their risk of death 34% over 15 months compared to patients who did not take the drugs. A yet unpublished study that was presented last November at a meeting of the American Heart Association reached a similar conclusion...
These results come as a bit of a surprise. Although beta-blockers have been used safely for decades to treat hypertension, chest pain and heart attacks, most physicians believed they were too dangerous to give to patients suffering from congestive heart failure...
Here's why: Beta-blockers counteract the body's fight-or-flight reactions to stress. More specifically, the drugs block the so-called beta-adrenergic receptors--molecules, found in muscles, that respond to surges of adrenaline. The beta-blockers thus relax the heart, causing it to beat more slowly. This seems like the last thing you would want to do for someone whose heart isn't pumping much blood in the first place...
These 48 students were part of the second round of Phi Beta Kappa elections for the Class of 1999. Twenty-four students were elected in the first round this spring. All will officially become members of the chapter in a formal ceremony...
Goldstein is also one of Harvard's four Marshall Scholarship winners. The other three, Daniel J. Benjamin, C. Thomas Brown and Eric M. Nelson, were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the first round. Of Harvard's Rhodes Scholarship winners, Navin Narayan of Adams House also received the Phi Beta Kappa honor in the first round...