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...fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population is those 85 and up. Many are, like Kurzweil's mother, frail and in need of multiple medications and frequent doctor's care. Since it's hard to get around, they often delay seeking treatment until an illness is full blown and then call 911. That becomes time consuming and costly and can lead to a family crisis. "When elderly patients go to the emergency room, doctors are very uncomfortable about sending them home" right away, says Dr. Joseph W. Spooner of Care Level Management in Woodland Hills, Calif. "So they admit them...
...something to do with the onset of the fall allergy season-a theory supported by a study of French allergy sufferers published in the Archives of Internal Medicine last week that found that most of them were troubled by some kind of sleeping problem and that 35% had full-blown insomnia. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...reemerged from Currier, Rodger withdrew from the ambulance and appeared to hide something in his back pocket. He admitted to taking the gloves, and by the time he spoke to The Crimson two days later, the police had dropped charges.“The whole thing was blown out of proportion,” he said at the time. “And the actions were the result of the tenseness of the situation.” ***Both incidents were overshadowed by the arrest of Thomas on June 5. The night of the Senior Soiree, Thomas broke down the door...
...letting out one’s inner handyman. Conveniently, our secret source told us that Cambridge is an ideal place for a wannabe carpenter. “There are a huge number of Home Depots near Cambridge,” he says. A city slicker, this individual was blown away by the superstore’s selection. “I was like a child in a candy store...
...underscored some of the reasons why even Washington might gain from avoiding a confrontation with Iran at the present time. The prospects for U.S. success in Iraq have deteriorated steadily over the past three years, as the insurgency has raged and sectarian conflict has threatened to turn into full-blown civil war. Without cooperation from Iran, which is far closer than Washington is to the Shi'ite parties that dominate the new Iraqi government, the U.S. is unlikely to reverse the slide in Iraq...