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...second trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine included 7,868 postmenopausal women between the ages of 60 and 90, who were also given either a placebo or injections of denosumab every six months for 36 months. Compared with the placebo group, the treated patients in this study had a 68% lower risk of vertebral fracture and a 40% lower risk of hip fracture over three years. Overall, 2.3% of women receiving denosumab had a spine fracture and 0.7% had a hip fracture, compared with 7.2% and 1.2% in the placebo group, respectively. (Read "Osteoarthritis: Not Just...
...comfortably trade one contract. That might sound like a lot for just one contract, but a single contract on NYMEX represents 1,000 barrels of crude oil: if the price moves $10 per barrel, you just had a swing of $10,000 in your account, which means you've either doubled your money or lost your shirt, your dreams wiped out in mere minutes. And you thought casinos had all the action...
...residents of Dörentrup can now switch on the lights on a specific street whenever they like. All they have to do is register for the scheme online and provide a phone number. Each time they need to see in the dark, they call the Dial4Light number and either recite or enter the six-digit code - which can be found online or on every lamp in each street - that corresponds to the stretch of road they want lit. Within seconds, the lights are on, and they'll stay on long enough for someone to walk from...
...damaged by their perceived failure to tackle the country's economic woes. "It is a kind of vacuum," says Attila Pok, a historian with the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. "A great number of voters do not believe in the established élite, either on the right or left. They voted for the newest, loudest and most clearly speaking platform...
...judgment laid down a set of seven directives aimed at providing the police freedom from political interference, and mandated the government to create dedicated agencies to handle public complaints against the police and to regularly evaluate their performance. But the federal government and most of the state governments have either completely disregarded the court's order, or significantly diluted it. "The police [are] definitely a major stakeholder in change," says Patil of CHRI, "But they're not the only ones. The media has abdicated their responsibility of highlighting police excesses. And the force of public opinion must be brought...