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Anyone who has seen a doctor recently knows the major culprits of heart disease - high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, too little exercise. For years, physicians have been warning their patients about these risk factors for heart attack and stroke. But with the explosion of research on the genetic drivers of disease, a group of experts at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston wondered how these tried and true markers of heart problems would stack up against the predictive power of the latest genomic science...
What they found came as a bit of a surprise. It turns out that the simpler measures - blood pressure, cholesterol and even family history of the disease - could predict just as accurately as sophisticated genetic screens who was at highest risk of heart problems in a 12-year follow-up period. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...colleagues assessed whether the predictive capability of two popular screening tools that heart experts currently use - known as the Framingham risk score and the Reynolds score - could be improved by adding information from two genetic screens that her team constructed by scouring the literature for genes that had been linked to heart disease...
...Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, once famously asked students of the College to “enter to grow in wisdom, depart to serve thy better thy country and thy kind.” Administrators, professors, students, and community affiliates alike should take this message to heart. To a significant extent, this is already happening. University Public Service Week was held last October, and President Drew Faust has expounded many times, including in The Crimson, on the virtues of public service—citing her own time with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...fleet of lasered 747s. However, Gates has continued R&D, and that gives missile-defense backers a flickering flame of hope. There's no doubt the companies involved - and their supporters in Congress - will use the shootdown to try to resurrect the program. After all, the heart of the program isn't a lumbering fleet of airliners but the chemical-oxygen-iodine lasers within...