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...with their medication until they consult their doctor. "I don't want patients to stop taking their medicine cold turkey," he said, emphasizing that the patients who ultimately went off their asthma drugs in his study did so over a period of several months while undergoing continuous tests to confirm the exclusion of asthma...
...search website Monster.com, whose employment index slid 10 points last month after rising in August and September. The precipitous drop, said Monster Worldwide's vice president of research, Jesse Harriott, "suggests that U.S. businesses are scaling back their recruitment due to uncertainty surrounding the global financial crisis." Other reports confirm the trend: Almost 30% of executives surveyed by the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. in September said they expected their companies to slash staff over the coming six months. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Olsen said that he still hopes to conduct clinical trials to confirm the benefits of anti-VEGF therapy in treating infantile hemangioma. But the team is also looking at other possible cures, including a way to induce pre-mature cell death in the endothelial cells. Another option would be to manipulate the mechanism by which the tumors naturally shrink, but that process is not yet understood...
...sales of a private-equity portfolio, The Journal article said. As of June 30, HMC’s planned allocation to private equity for 2009 was up to 13 percent of the University’s endowment, or just under $4.8 billion. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to confirm the sale when asked about the Private Equity Week report last week, citing a standing Harvard policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack...
...deaths of its No. 2 leader and one of the top commanders in its war on narco traffickers sent shockwaves through the government of President Felipe Calderón, already reeling from an increasingly bloody fight against the powerful drug cartels. While officials could not immediately confirm the cause of the crash, Transport Secretary Luis Tellez said it appeared to be an accident rather than a bomb because much of the plane remained intact. Still, soldiers rapidly descended on the airport from which the aircraft had departed, in the western state of San Luis Potosi, where the officials had been...