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...GAD! Vitamin E may not help the heart after all. In a double-blind trial of nearly 10,000 high-risk patients--who had already had a heart attack or stroke--400 IUs of vitamin E daily didn't work any better than a sugar pill in preventing a subsequent episode of heart trouble. Best advice: for now, count on aspirin and the other meds your doctor prescribes...
...GAD! A preliminary but intriguing study suggests a link between gamma tocopherol, a component of some vitamin E pills, and developing arthritis of the knee, shown at right. Gamma tocopherol tends to be found in newer E supplements--those that boast of "mixed tocopherols." Standard capsules contain only alpha tocopherols, which, say researchers, will leave your knees alone...
...Mesulam, all of Kirkland House; Heather S. Craw, Rachel A. Farbiarz, Benjamin D. Florman, Scott Rothkopf and Hanna R. Shell, all of Leverett House; Elif I. Batuman, Elizabeth S. Drogin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Eric J. Feigin, Alma Hadar, Paul N. Lekas, Anil S. Menon, Ming-e M. Ou, Gad Soffer, Emily V. Thornbury, Nikhil Wagle and Markella V. Zanni, all of Lowell House; Daniel J. Benjamin, Jennifer A. Burney, Chelsea H. Foxwell, Doreen T. Ho, Amy B. Stanley and Stephen E. Weinberg, all of Mather House; Jared H. Beck and Judson L. Jaffe of Pforzheimer House; Supinda Bunyavanich, Dunja Popovic...
Other recipients included Heather S. Craw, Rachel A. Farbiarz, Benjamin D. Florman, Scott Rothkopf and Hanna R. Shell, all of Leverett House; and Elif I. Batuman, Elizabeth S. Drogin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Eric J. Feigin, Alma Hadar, Paul N. Lekas, Anil S. Menon, Ming-e M. Ou, Gad Soffer, Emily V. Thornbury, Nikhil Wagle and Markella V. Zanni, all of Lowell House...
...Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship--open to both sexes--will be given to Eleanor M. Pries '99 and Elena A. Schneider '99 of Mather House and Gad Soffer '99, affiliated with Lowell House...