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...very good job of staying disciplined, but we did a much better job tonight staying out of the box.”Taylor proved to be the star of the night, notching two goals and an assist to lead the Crimson’s offensive charge. He drew first blood with a shorthanded goal at 13:07 in the first period to end the back-and-forth action between the two teams. After sophomore defenseman Ian Tallet was sent to the penalty box for roughing, Harvard was forced to retreat to penalty-kill mode. Taylor intercepted the puck at about...
...York Times, captivated by the scent of blood, has suddenly taken an interest in Ivy League athletics. The paper-of-record’s customarily New York-centric sports pages do not usually pay the conference too much heed—even a “homer,” after all, would have a hard time scaring up affection for perennial cellar-dweller Columbia. But just as the extracurricular activities of a certain state official have proven too scintillating for the front pages to ignore, the Times believes it has found a similarly sordid narrative to plant...
...learned. "I think in the U.S. we might use this as an initial test," Gaziano says. "We can at least narrow the group of people for whom we need to screen cholesterol." Those with very few other heart-disease risk factors, for example, probably don't need the extra blood work, since their cholesterol profile wouldn't make a big difference to overall risk anyway. Similarly, those patients with several risk factors for heart disease probably need treatment no matter what their cholesterol levels. By giving blood tests only to those on the fence, doctors can save resources...
...example, Asians tend to have a higher body-fat ratio than Caucasians - but, in many ways, Americans of the 1970s may be more similar than not to populations elsewhere today. In the '70s, Americans smoked a lot more tobacco than today, and few were getting treatment for high blood pressure or high cholesterol. That's not so different from 21st-century Russians or Eastern Europeans, Gaziano suggests...
...factors are rapidly becoming more common worldwide, even in sub-Saharan Africa, where infectious disease remains a big killer. In theory, African doctors should be among those who benefit most from the new paper's findings. In resource-poor settings, saving the $1 to $3 cost of a lab blood test (in the U.S. it costs $10, according to the Lancet paper) would certainly be meaningful - but that's assuming the tests were being performed to start with. The real savings are difficult to calculate, in large part because the populations most likely to benefit from dropping lab tests...