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...Researchers tracked the progression of their disease, complications and survival rates; they also recorded the treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with that of terminal-cancer patients. Thirty-one residents suffered major health events, such as seizure, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart attack or stroke, but only in rare cases did those...
...There are all the makings here for two very good games,” Grimm said. “This week is a great chance to get the second half of the season going, to build confidence and momentum again...
...rookie has already begun to make an impact with the football team, grabbing two first-half interceptions in Harvard’s victory over Cornell last Saturday...
...pair faltered slightly on Day 2 but only finished outside the top half of the 17-member field three times in 14 races on the weekend...
...everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people it's being communicated by aren't even in the jurisdiction. How are you going to effectively prevent that?" (Read a Q&A with author Christopher Andrew on MI5's secrets...