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Until now. In a groundbreaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, doctors from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that a simple blood test, called CRP, that measures the presence and intensity of inflammation in the walls of the blood vessels is as good as and in some cases better than cholesterol levels at predicting which patients are most likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke...
Despite growing minority populations in the Boston metropolitan area and in the city itself, the greater Boston area is becoming even more segregated, according to a report released last week by the Harvard Civil Rights Project (CRP...
Whites are moving out of Boston and neighboring suburbs like Lowell and Somerville to remote suburbs like Franklin and Plymouth, the report says, creating what CRP researcher Nancy A. McArdle calls a “doughnut effect...
...CRP Co-director Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy at Harvard Law School, said dismantling desegregation programs in public education in the face of increasing segregation will hurt growing minority populations...
Already, physicians around the U.S. have begun screening their heart patients for CRP. If Ridker has his way, that number will continue to grow, and CRP testing will become as ubiquitous as cholesterol screening--and as important in saving lives...