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...program for athletes in 1983 - provides enough evidence of the effectiveness of an ECG to override the AHA's concerns. Analyzing data from 42,000 athletes in the northeastern Veneto region of the country from 1979 to 2004, Italian researchers found that ECG screening resulted in an almost 90% drop in sudden cardiac deaths. Incidence of SCD among the unscreened nonathletic population did not change significantly during that time. (Read "The Death of an All-Star...
Then there's a third group, who eagerly offer amnesty to contrite storage robbers. One individual, who shall remain nameless, wrote to the Currier houselist, wrote, "P.P.S. - anonymous drop offs of my M.I.A items may be delivered to [redacted]......if you wish to remain shrouded in mystery...
...McKinsey's report, which was completed as part of nearly $15 million worth of work for the Department of Health this year, also called for a recruitment freeze within the next two years and for a drop in medical-school admissions, according to the Health Service Journal. It said savings of up to $5 billion a year could be made by improving staff productivity, while more than $3 billion could be saved on external contracts with waste-disposal companies, food suppliers and other contractors. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...that the move came "in light of" his decision to give the Office's director Bob Mitchell the new title of assistant dean for diversity relations and communications. In which case, it's unclear why getting another person to run the office was off the table, though Smith does drop the term "cost-effective" at the tail end of the note...
...According to the International Commission for the Conservation of Tuna (ICCAT), a Madrid-based organization that regulates tuna fishing among most countries that engage in it, breeding stocks of bluefin tuna have declined to below 40% of their 1970 levels, with the steepest drop occurring in the past five to 10 years. Much of the problem lies with the runaway market for sushi and the illegal fishing that exploits the profits it offers. Some scientists, like Brian MacKenzie of Denmark's National Institute of Aquatic Resources, have suggested that at the current levels of fishing, the collapse of bluefin stocks...