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Smoking seems to bring out the inner statistician in people. Sure, smokers know their habit can lead to lung cancer, but what are the odds it actually will? How does smoking a pack a day for 20 years compare in risk with smoking two packs daily for 40 years? And...
Consider the case of a 51-year-old woman who smoked a pack a day from age 14 until she stopped at age 42. The model puts her chances of getting lung cancer in the next decade at less than 1 in 100. Compare that with a 68-year-old...
Matt Dillon is used to strange props showing up in his movies. After all, there was the questionable, er, hair gel that several actors sported in There's Something About Mary and the man-eating crocodile that finished off his character in Wild Things. But neither of those compare to...
Could Xolair take TNX-901's place? Not without a lot of new testing. "The problem is that they are not identical drugs," says Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai. "We don't know how the doses compare." Any doctor who prescribes Xolair off label to deal with your peanut...
All Harvard undergraduates need to work extremely hard to earn their degrees. To see that, one needs only compare the time devoted to academics by Harvard students and by their peers at Oxford and Cambridge, who spend two-and-a-half years doing nothing but drinking before cramming for their...