Word: culprit
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...century-old mystery is on the verge of being solved. As researchers, physicians and caregivers gather in Washington next week for the World Alzheimer Congress, the scientists who favor plaques as the culprit are getting a first crack at proving their hypothesis. Thanks to a series of discoveries--some of which have been made only in the past couple of months--they should soon be able to demonstrate once and for all whether getting rid of plaques is the most important step in halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease. They've already started preliminary clinical trials in human volunteers...
SEIZE THIS! Been told you have epilepsy, but can't get the disease under control? Now a report suggests that as many as 25% of patients thought to have epilepsy are actually suffering from low blood pressure, heart-rhythm problems or panic attacks. Clues that epilepsy is not the culprit: the attacks usually come when the patient is sitting or standing, and--no surprise here--epilepsy medication doesn't help...
...primary culprit" for the error was an anonymous government clerk, the Pentagon says. The bureaucrat mistakenly added all nonbattlefield U.S. military deaths--20,617--that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...
...York City restaurants. Raymond and his partners visited one of them, a Brazilian steak house on Central Park South called Plantation, and with the cooperation of the restaurant's mortified owner, they looked around the employee dressing room. There, in an open locker, they spotted the likely culprit: a black box the size of a Palm Pilot, with a slit down the front and bits of Velcro tape on the back. Called a "skimmer," the device can read and store the data embedded within a charge card's magnetic stripe--not only the name, number and expiration date that appear...
...ranked 24th, despite spending more on health per capita than any other nation. The United States "stands out as not doing as well as they should be," Chris Murray, director of the U.N. agency's global program on evidence for health policy, told the Associated Press. The culprit? Just what you'd expect from in a country that eschews socialized medicine: Its health care is the best in the world - for those who can afford it. According to the study, rich Americans are the world's healthiest people. But, said Murray, those occupying the lower rungs on the socioeconomic ladder...