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...disaster. It's going to pass its safety and emissions tests, but it's still going to be dangerous if an SUV hits it. It's going to get walloped in a crash test. And invariably, like what happened with the Yugo, someone is going to die in a crash. The Nano will be in some wreck, and it will turn out that quality was the cause. The press will jump on it, and the whole cycle will start again. But as I said, I'd love to be wrong...
People with diabetes are twice as likely as nondiabetics to suffer a heart attack - most diabetes patients die of heart disease - and for years, physicians have used aggressive drug treatments to lower that risk. To that end, the goal has commonly been to lower blood sugar or control blood-sugar spikes after eating, lower triglycerides and reduce blood pressure in diabetes patients to levels closer to those of healthy, nondiabetic individuals. By using medication to treat these factors, which are linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke in other patients, doctors assumed they would also be reducing...
...report, titled "Deadly Delivery," notes that the likelihood of a woman's dying in childbirth in the U.S. is five times as great as in Greece, four times as great as in Germany and three times as great as in Spain. Every day in the U.S., more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes, with the maternal mortality ratio doubling from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 births in 1987 to 13.3 deaths per 100,000 births in 2006. (And as shocking as these figures are, Amnesty notes that the actual number of maternal deaths...
...report notes that black women in the U.S. are nearly four times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, although they are no more likely to experience certain complications like hemorrhage. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Quirks: Some traditions never die. Every Sunday night, Kirklanders still gather for milk and warm cookies at Boat Club, the most delicious—we think—House tradition at Harvard. It may also boast the only combination ping-pong-pool-gym room at Harvard in the basement of F-entryway...