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Theodore Roosevelt had carried the lethal dose of morphine with him for years. He had taken it to the American West, to the African savanna and, finally, down the River of Doubt--a twisting tributary deep in the Amazon rain forest. The glass vial was small enough to tuck into a leather satchel or slip into his luggage, nearly invisible beside his books, his socks and his eight extra pairs of eyeglasses. Easily overlooked, it was perhaps the most private possession of one of the world's most public...
...case fish oil, in capsule or liquid form, may be a better source than the fish that produce it because it is purified to be free of mercury and organic toxins. I have long recommended that people consume one to two grams of fish oil a day, the same dose used in the J.A.M.A. study...
...resident solved was this: the student nurse had come in to say goodnight to her patient. She then gave him a backrub. And what did she use for the backrub? The cream on the bedside table - Nitropaste. The huge surface area of his back gave the patient a walloping dose. Even the surface area of the nurse's hands was enough to knock her out. Smiles went all around. Though the two weren't awake yet, we all knew that they were safe - a good thing about Nitropaste is you can "turn it off," rapidly stopping its effects by simply...
...report on Phase I of a drug trial - the first study of a drug in human patients, which usually involve a handful of the sickest patients who have not responded to standard treatments. The purpose of Phase I studies is to establish what's known as the maximum tolerated dose - that is, the dose at which the drug then becomes too toxic and dangerous to take. But because the number of patients is too small and the safety of the drug hasn't been established, such tests are not designed to determine the drug's effectiveness...
...field’s hefty requirements. But Harvard would then lose the collegiality that America’s four-year college tradition exists to ensure.Unsatisfying a compromise it may be, the solution seems to be preserving the undergraduate engineering program as distinct from the new school, injecting a paltry dose of the liberal arts through the Core (or whatever new system of distribution requirements replaces it), and developing the new school as a focus for graduate, post-graduate, and faculty research and collaboration. Through the liberal use of joint-appointments between the new school and FAS, undergraduate engineers could take...