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...health-care industry, with its chronic shortage of nurses and burgeoning client base in Sun Belt states, is a natural pioneer of such programs. But increasingly, other kinds of companies are getting involved, especially giant retail chains like Borders, Home Depot and CVS Pharmacy...
...surprise, says the report's author, Dr. Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, is that life-span discrepancies show up most in young and middle-aged adults, not kids or the elderly, who tend to be viewed as at higher risk and are due more to chronic ailments like heart disease and high blood pressure than to factors like homicide...
...have what Donald Rumsfeld has? A lot of folks do. Tearing and what's called "maceration" of the rotator cuff are the most common causes of chronic shoulder pain in adult Americans. I find them and other shoulder problems fascinating; this strangely tendon-wrapped joint has kept my professional interest level amazingly high for the 22 years that I've been doing orthopedics. So when, in the middle of doing an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair this morning, my trusty assistant Dave told me about Don Rumsfeld's repair, I knew I had to get the plain truth...
...Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate” burst onto the Historical Studies B scene last year, with its innovative pedagogy succoring any students’ doubts over its suggestive course title. Grading was dependent on self-debating ability, but you’re probably already a chronic, compulsive self-debater anyways. You’ll have to wait until next year to take this one though, because it’s not being offered this year.The jury is still out on Historical Studies B-68, “America and Vietnam: 1945-1975,” team taught...
...years, lower than Vietnam, Egypt, and North Korea. The life expectancy gap has been increasing since 1984. According to the study, disparities in life expectancy are caused not by commonly-blamed factors such as poverty, infant mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, and lack of health insurance, but rather by chronic noncommunicable diseases. Five factors are most deadly: tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol. Disparities in death-rates primarily affect young and middle-age adults. The researchers recommended that public-health efforts target these age groups. In life expectancy, as in real estate, what matters is location, location, location...