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...biloba twice a day did not prevent the development of dementia in a group of 1,545 seniors 75 years and older; there was no difference in rates of dementia among the intervention group and a similar group of 1,524 participants who took identical placebos. This was the largest and longest investigation into the effects of gingko biloba, and the first study to explore whether a supplement could prevent Alzheimer's disease in healthy volunteers. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...endowment reductions that could come out of this year are much beyond what we’ve ever experienced,” said Smith. “The largest decrease in any one year was 12 percent. Thirty percent is a long way from that...
...recent years, several of Boston’s city hospitals—including the HMS affiliated and top-ranked Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital Boston—have planned and embarked on multi-million dollar expansion projects. MGH, the largest hospital in New England and the third oldest general hospital in the U.S., broke ground last September on a $144 million outpatient care facility in Danvers. While the new regulations should not affect the Children’s Hospital’s proposed expansion plans in the North Shore, spokeswoman Michelle...
...Although they have presided over the largest expansion of U.S. government since the Johnson Administration, the GOP has apparently reached its line in the sand when it comes to economic bailouts. Senate majority leader Harry Reid introduced legislation on Monday that asked for $25 billion of the $700 billion bailout fund Congress approved in September to be redirected for use by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in the hopes of helping the faltering industry avoid going under. Republicans immediately balked at the idea...
...same number of autoworkers that have been laid off so far this year. And that's not to mention the hit the Federal Government would take if GM dumps its pension, insured by quasi-governmental agency the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.; with nearly 1 million participants, it is the largest private defined-benefit pension plan in the U.S. Some experts estimate that that hit alone could cost taxpayers more than $100 billion, with another $100 billion in lost tax revenues and $10 billion in increased Medicaid expenditures annually...