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...three women are well advanced in research. Robertson, who began her research in 1975, studies autonomic cardiovascular control. Donahoe investigates congenital anomalies in children and their causes. Young conducts brain receptor research in relation to neurodegenerative diseases, and was part of the team of scientists who discovered the gene for Huntington’s disease...
...antibiotics have side effects, but fluoroquinolones--the family that includes Cipro--have had more than their share of strange ones. Earlier generations of the drugs caused personality changes, cardiovascular complications and ruptured tendons, particularly the Achilles tendon, in a small number of users. Three earlier fluoroquinolones had to be taken off the market. One, Omniflox, was withdrawn after only three months, following dozens of severe reactions, including several deaths...
Rave reviews abound concerning the revamped cardiovascular exercise room and the three new and improved weight rooms. The unisex weight room boasts refreshing air conditioning, and as John V. Mulcahy ’04 notes about all three rooms, “There are more machines than I know what to do with!” Whether buffing abs, arms, legs or chest strike your fancy, the new equipment promises to transform, with time, an athletically intrepid Harvardian into a hulking mass of muscle—or at least a sweatier version of his or her former self...
...profile and submitted additional data to an FDA advisory panel last February. But the extra information raised new red flags for Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who was consulted by the FDA. Nissen noticed what seemed like a high number of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems in the companies' data. Together with Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Debabrata Mukherjee, Nissen decided to look into the matter further...
...help prevent heart disease, the JAMA study might only be picking up the absence of a protective effect in the COX-2 inhibitors. Or the new painkillers might actually promote the creation of blood clots. Or both processes might be at work. The point, Topol says, is that "the cardiovascular effects of the [COX-2 inhibitors are] woefully understudied...