Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal that it neglected to watch Peter Ciavalglia, who scored five seconds later to put Harvard on its way to an ECAC semifinal date with Clarkson this Friday in Boston Garden. The Crimson's 6-4 victory in front of 2911 fans at Bright Center capped a two-night dose of delirious hockey...
...short, NASA was force-fed a harsh dose of reality: the glory days of the 1960s are long gone. It may be that the only way the U.S. can remain a power in space in the face of a strong Soviet manned program and aggressive foreign commercial ventures is if NASA shares the costs -- and the rewards. The question now is whether a policy outlined by a lame-duck President will carry much weight with his successors...
...harshest indictment of Debbie's treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten the end of her life, that is something a physician could live with. Pediatrician Kathleen Nolan, an ethicist at New York's Hastings Center, reports that several of her young patients, suffering terribly from cancer, died in this way. Says Nolan: "There...
...study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
...University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...