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Researchers have long suspected that stress does the body harm, but bulletproof clinical evidence linking stress to heart attacks and other disease has been elusive - partly because stress is such a personal and variable thing. Only recently have such studies started to gather critical mass, and researchers have begun calling on clinicians to include the diagnosis and treatment of stress in the routine care for patients with conditions like AIDS and heart disease. "Every layman knows that stress is a cause of heart disease," says Dr. Kristina Orth-Gomer, who has been studying stress and cardiology for 25 years...
...been called the gift of life, but for many of the five million patients who receive blood transfusions every year, it can actually do more harm than good...
...Florida and issued a warning. The calls abated, evidence that stopping the problem—for a little while, at least—is possible without undue effort. Obviously no one can promise absolute protection against the world’s creeps, but there’s certainly no harm done in trying...
...millionth time, at great cost. I was shocked, though, to read an article which explicitly argued not only against the idea of meritocracy but against the very idea of rationality in politics. While there are certainly spheres of human existence that rationality cannot greatly improve and may actually harm, spirituality comes immediately to mind, I would think that politics is very high on the list of endeavors in which any reasonable person agrees that rationality is an absolute prerequisite. Ask the people of Darfur or Iraq whether they would prefer to enjoy the “apparent advantages?...
...corruption charges leveled against her and her husband, Asif Zadari. On Thursday Musharraf told Dawn TV that while he had not forgotten about the corruption charges, "There is a greater need to bring together forces that believe in moderation to take on religious extremism," and that "there is no harm in engaging [Bhutto] in the dialogue process...