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The authors of the current study say theirs is the first to examine long-term survival rates of standard prostate cancer treatments, but warn that the results are not definitive. Because the study was observational - rather than a randomized head-to-head comparison of the treatments - the data could have...
In the spring of his senior year of high school, Marco A. Morales had to make a choice between a number of excellent schools. One was the historically elite and notoriously expensive Harvard, with its total cost per year surpassing $41,000 in 2007. Another was the Franklin W. Olin...
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...
How much healthier are we? Mortality rates are going down, and our quality of life is improving. The rate of chronic disability among those over 65 has plunged to less than 20% from more than 26% two decades ago. The number of nursing homes and their occupancy rates declined over...
The most dangerous research is done in the country's Level 3 and Level 4 labs. Since the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and infected another 17, the government has spent billions on bioterror and infectious-disease research, and on building the high-risk labs that...