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...chances of developing heart disease did increase. "To me, that suggests that seven years was not a long-enough time for follow-up in the overweight women," says the J.A.M.A. report's lead author, Dr. Kathleen McTigue of the University of Pittsburgh. It may simply take longer for the fatal effects of heart disease to start showing up among overweight women...
KALA-AZAR $30 million to fight this usually fatal illness caused by a parasite spread by sand flies in South Asia
Magnus said that every space mission harbors notable hazards—including a 1-in-100 chance of a fatal disaster, according to official NASA estimates—but that the spacecraft set to launch tomorrow incorporates numerous fine-tuned enhancements that address problems plaguing past missions...
...Watkins has captured the essence of leadership: humility and an ability to admit mistakes. If I hadn't known she was describing Lay's fatal flaws as the leader of Enron, I would have concluded she was describing Bush's fatal flaws as the leader of the U.S. We taxpayers are the stockholders and customers of our government, and we owe it to ourselves and our progeny to ask, the next time we go to the polls, whether we have learned from the failures of our leaders. Mimi Barron Fredericksburg, Virginia...
...subjects in the J.A.M.A. study had serious heart disease; all had or were about to have defibrillators implanted in their chests to shock their hearts out of episodes of potentially fatal arrhythmias. Two grams of fish oil a day did not reduce the incidence of those episodes or improve death rates. The study was well designed, but even its authors wonder about its significance for healthy people who want to eat right. Not much, to my mind. I take two grams of fish oil a day and recommend that almost everyone...