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...cast is laden with heavy black eye makeup, and characters such as Mrs. Foxhill (Rachel A. Stark ’11) shuffle around the stage, stare into the audience with vacant expressions, and speak in monotone. Sister Felicity (Hollie Zegman) even wipes down the floor with red water resembling blood as the action of the play continues on around her.The high-pitched and babyish voice Medina uses to portray Catherine is reminiscent of a bad horror movie, which only gets worse as Medina—hair slung in front of her face while she lays on the floor?...
...cholesterol levels and other well-established risk factors, is an important marker of heart disease. But while it was clear that inflammation was a key player in disease, there was no real data to prove that reducing inflammation, as measured by lower levels of the CRP marker in the blood, could prevent future cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy patients...
...serious rethinking of the current guidelines - an issue that health officials have already been debating in recent years. "I would not be surprised if, given these results, we determined that normal LDL should be lower than currently defined," says Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Updated cholesterol guidelines are expected...
...study suggests that screening all patients for CRP (a $10 test) as well as for cholesterol and blood pressure 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...
...religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged to use language shaped by religion...