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...Research on patients with CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE finds that carvedilol, a type of drug known as a beta blocker, can significantly lessen the risk of dying from the disease. The pill is taken daily, along with other standard medications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 3, 1996 | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...went to the trouble of writing an entire article based on her thesis (not to mention the trouble I and many like me took to read said editorial), it would be nice if that thesis were actually a readable piece of work. Debunking one's own work tends to lessen the strength of any subsequent articles, Ms. Carrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opinion Page Too Much to Bear | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

...disease could turn out to be as serious a threat to mankind as AIDS. Nobody expected back in 1980, when just a few cases of AIDS were reported, that it would become such a grave and global problem. The E.U. feels sympathetic to Britain and wants to lessen its economic loss by possibly killing fewer cows than is necessary to eradicate the disease. It shows a good spirit to want to spare economic hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Margulies said she is trying to do as much as possible to lessen employees' anxiety about the restructuring but said some worrying is inevitable...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: OIT Announces Layoffs, Firings To Save Costs | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

Those late-night runs to Coffee Connection may actually lessen the risk of suicide for women, a new study says. But Harvard students are skeptical of the findings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Drinking May Reduce Suicide Risk | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

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