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...many sports cardiologists think that's a bad idea. The American Heart Association (AHA), while agreeing with the need for a screening program, believes that universal ECG tests are not cost-effective and are also likely to result in unacceptably high rates of false-positive results. It recommends that athletes instead be screened through a health questionnaire and physical examination, with an ECG used only as a secondary investigation. "Our current position on screening young people before athletic competition calls for a thorough patient and family medical history and a physical exam as the first line of screening...
Fitzsimmons said he immediately agreed when his long time acquaintance at the NYT, Jacques Steinberg, proposed the idea two weeks...
Fitzsimmons said he immediately agreed when his long time acquaintance at the NYT, Jacques Steinberg, proposed the idea two weeks...
...fasting can lead to profound self-reflection as well. Those few hours before the sun sets and one is allowed to eat are precisely the time in which one realizes just how easy it is to succumb to temptation. The idea that all it takes is a candy bar to bring a man to his knees is a supremely humbling idea. This weakness rightly serves to remind us of how fragile we are as individuals...
...Goldstein said. But the HSPH center aims to reach even farther, according to Lipsitch. He said that he hoped the Center will also actively educate the next generation of “data-savvy modelers” by offering graduate courses and funding research opportunities. The idea of a new research center solely devoted to modeling infectious diseases arose last spring when NIH announced the possibility of new funding, said Lipsitch. According to Irene Eckstrand, a MIDAS Scientific Officer, the Harvard center will be “differentiated not by the questions they seek to answer, but by the methods...