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...problem, according to patient-advocacy groups, is that some people cannot tolerate synthetic insulin. They say patients develop resistance to it or suffer adverse reactions that can be severe, even fatal. Such patients are few, but those few are angry, vocal and organized. They say they need animal insulin to maintain their health, and if it is no longer available in the U.S., their only option will be to get it abroad. But most insurance doesn't cover that, so those without resources would be abandoned to their fate. "I've got a few bottles left," says Joi Shaivitz...
...invented in his mind. But honestly, do we really need to see it? Do you really need to masturbate into a condom to know that it’s depressing? Well, actually, you do, but you get our point. Freshman 15 The Freshman 15 foolishly co-opts the fatal flaw of the Miss America Pageant by pretending that there is more to hotness than superficial physical judgments. Oh, I run a PBHA program! Oh, I have “style”! Oh, I’m “ethnic” and only chosen because the white...
...first place, or the bar-coded wristband is put on the wrong patient, it can be harder to prevent mistakes down the line. In one case study, a patient with pneumonia had his wristband mixed up with a diabetic patient and came very close to being given a fatal dose of insulin...
...lead slowly disappeared.The Bears mounted an impossible nine-run surge, aided by a pair of errors, to wrestle the game away from a stunned Crimson team.Most of the damage went on Vertovez’s record in her 1.2 innings of work, while senior Michele McAteer pitched to the fatal final batter.A pair of opportunities to get the game called on the run rule slipped away from Harvard in the later innings.Despite the difficult defeat, Allard is hopeful that her team learned some valuable lessons from the outing.“First of all, we need to finish things...
...terrorists and New York’s first responders acted manfully on that day. The hijackers exhibited manliness by forfeiting their lives in defense of their belief system. But New York’s firemen, paramedics, and police officers acted no less manfully as they undertook perilous, and often fatal, rescue missions in defense of the people of New York...