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...scored five runs or more in each of its last five wins. The Crimson defeated BU in both of their matchups last season. Needless to say, there is no curse, no losing streak, and no fundamental troubles with putting the bat on the ball. Without an identifiable, chronic difficulty, offensive problems seem to be inexplicable...
...study overturns the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux. The study published this week's New England Journal of Medicine finds that the drugs, such as Prilosec and Nexium, may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma...
...symptoms of GERD, such as nausea, chest pain or heartburn, but doctors think the condition may exacerbate asthma, possibly by causing aspiration of acid into the lungs. The common practice, set forth by National Institutes of Health guidelines, is to treat asthmatic patients - particularly those who have severe and chronic disease - with acid reflux drugs, when other traditional asthma treatments don't work...
...according to Mastronarde's study, which tracked 402 adults ages 18 or older with poorly controlled chronic asthma, the drugs had no impact on symptoms. Participants were randomly assigned to either a treatment or placebo group, and followed for six months using daily asthma diaries as well as spirometry tests and questionnaires at four-week intervals. Even among the roughly 40% of patients with confirmed GERD, the medication offered no benefit over the placebo...
...that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn, ALBUQUERQUE...