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...blood and boosts levels of "good" cholesterol. But all of the volunteers either already suffered from heart disease, or had two or more major risk factors for heart problems - including cigarette smoking, family history and high cholesterol - in addition to diabetes. That may have pushed their diabetes too far along to allow them to see any benefit from the drugs. "This may be too late a state to expect major benefits from the medications," says Ganda...
...that younger, newly diagnosed patients with diabetes may actually benefit from aggressively lowering their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels - a trend that may have been lost in the noise of the current studies, which included patients who were up to 79 years old. "I tend to be far more tuned in to getting normal targets in my younger patients," says Dr. Daniel Einhorn, medical director of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, who is a co-author on one of the NEJM studies. "Without question, now I am more conservative in my treatment of older, sicker patients, because they...
...think that both teams are stronger right now offensively than they are defensively,” Tillman said. “If you look at UMass they were one of the top scoring teams in the nation coming in, and we weren’t too far behind them...
VanderMeulen looks to be the best bet to fill Halpern’s shoes on offense, as she leads the team so far this season with 13 goals, more than double the number held by the team’s second leading scorer...
Women have come a long way, baby, but not as far as we'd like to think. That's the provocative message of the new book Enlightened Sexism. The blatant discrimination of eras past, says author Susan Douglas, has been supplanted by a more insidious form of bias, which suggests that sexist messages are O.K. if couched in irony. (It's fine to enjoy watching catty contestants on The Bachelor snipe at one another - because, come on, we all know most women aren't like that. Ha-ha. Right?) Douglas talked to TIME about the economic plight of women today...