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...Cahill, she'll be packing the collapsible travel hoop she received as a wedding gift to take with her on her honeymoon. And she has lost so much weight that she had to buy an entirely new gown just three months before her wedding day. "It's the best problem a bride could run into," says Cahill, "and I owe it all to hooping...
Between the nerves, the unfamiliarity and the urge to impress, few people do themselves justice on the first day of a new job. When it comes to doctors starting out in emergency medicine, though, are patients' lives being put at risk? According to research from Imperial College London, the death rate among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August - the day, traditionally, that newly graduated doctors take up their posts - was, on average, 6% higher than for those admitted the last Wednesday in July. An influx of new medical staff, in other words, just might...
...online scientific journal of the U.S. Public Library of Science, scientists analyzed close to 300,000 patients admitted to state-run hospitals across England on those two Wednesdays from 2000 to 2008. The health of the patients, who were split evenly between the July and August admission days, was tracked for a week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven-day period, when researchers controlled for the patients' age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems, the odds of dying was found to be 6% higher for those admitted on the Wednesday in August...
...link further. One problem: tracking admissions for a longer period before and after junior doctors begin work might offer a more reliable sample; extend the monitoring period too far, though, and the two groups soon overlap. Plenty more for researchers to ponder, then - except those on their first day...
...above all her affection for language that makes her fiction interesting. Atwood picks at words, she turns them over, she peers at them, she reshapes them, as if searching for some secret behind the letters—“It’s daybreak. The break of day... What breaks in daybreak?”—Atwood won’t let words rest. In the “The Year of the Flood”, she unravels and warps them, so that the surrealistic world she creates seems to stem from a perversion...