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...surprisingly, White House officials have been poring over drafts for weeks. This is the first year that former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bill McGurn has run the speech operation. But former speechwriting pointman Mike Gerson, now a counselor to the President and one of the architects of Bush?s ?compassionate conservatism,? has been brought in to help give the address added polish...
...home but has not talked at school or in other social situations for at least a month is a strong candidate for a diagnosis of SM. Experts once believed that fewer than 1 in 1,000 kids developed the disorder, but an influential study three years ago in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry put the prevalence at closer to 7 in 1,000, making SM almost twice as common as autism...
Hormone-replacement therapy poses dangers for postmenopausal women, but a study in the Journal of Women's Health finds that starting HRT earlier, at the beginning of menopause, may cut the risk of heart disease...
...carbon monoxide can also damage the heart. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that even moderate exposure to CO can put survivors at greater risk of heart disease. Researchers from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation followed 230 patients admitted to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning. More than one-third of them suffered heart-muscle injury, and of those, nearly 40% were dead within eight years. "We were surprised that so many of the patients died," says Dr. Timothy Henry, one of the study's authors. "That's three times as high...
Countries around the world have been stockpiling the antiviral drug Tamiflu in preparation for a possible avian-flu pandemic. But a review published in the journal Lancet last week cast doubt on the drug?s effectiveness. Researchers in Rome analyzed existing studies and concluded there is no ?credible evidence? that Tamiflu works against bird flu. While acknowledging that the drug has considerable limitations?to be effective, it must be administered soon after flu symptoms appear?the World Health Organization questioned the review?s conclusions, and said it won?t change its recommendation that governments keep stocking up on the drug...