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Warning to high-blood-pressure patients: you must wait at least a week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...
Queens College is a traditional volleyball powerhouse, and NYU showed a week earlier that it could pose a challenge. But Harvard's hitting percentage improved dramatically, and two players--junior middle blocker Evan Mager and senior setter Evan Beachy--earned All-Tournament honors...
Researchers knew--and made clear to participants going in--that the drug was not without danger. While tamoxifen acts as an estrogen blocker in the breast, it acts more like estrogen itself in other parts of the body. That's why the scientists were on the lookout for uterine cancer and effects on the circulatory system. And while such problems did show up, so did the hoped-for protection. Women who took the tamoxifen had a 45% lower incidence of breast malignancies than those who took placebos. Results were so dramatic that the scientists stopped the study and gave...
Paced by junior middle blocker Evan Mager's team-high 14 kills, the Crimson (9-9,1-5 EIVA Hay Division) went deep into the second and third games, even missing out on three game points in the second, but could not finish against the Chiefs, who improved to 13-7 as Harvard dropped its fourth straight...
Thus, with her small forward out of the rotation, VanDerveer needed to make a quick change before facing Harvard on Saturday. It was a no brainer; everyone knew what would happen. Folkl, the team's leading scorer, rebounder and blocker would be given the starting nod. Nygaard's loss would be hard, but Folkl would soften the blow...