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...enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive the same degree of benefit from statins. But the benefit is real and far outweighs any risk. We would advise a discussion with one's health care provider before discontinuing or modifying any life-sustaining or disease-prevention therapy. Clyde W. Yancy, President, American Heart Association, DALLAS Ralph Brindis, President, American College of Cardiology, WASHINGTON...
...every school day of his childhood, my grandfather padded barefoot down eight kilometers of dirt track to go to class. His family was poor, but understood this blistering walk was the ticket to a better life - one that would lead him from an obscure village in Kerala to success in India's cities. A landmark bill put into effect this month aims to open his path to all, making free education a fundamental right for children between 6 and 14. The law is sorely needed in a country with the world's largest population of young people. At least...
Abuse in the Church "Sins of the Fathers" implies that if Catholic priests were free to marry, it would solve the problem of pedophilia - which the medical community has determined is an incurable illness [March 29]. Pedophiles exist in all walks of life, yet Catholic priests get the headlines, even though just a tiny percentage have committed this shameful offense. Choosing to live the vow of chastity is a gift of one's total self to God and has no relevance whatsoever to pedophilia. Mary Anne Kevil, La Grange...
...enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive the same degree of benefit from statins. But the benefit is real and far outweighs any risk. We would advise a discussion with one's health care provider before discontinuing or modifying any life-sustaining or disease-prevention therapy. Clyde W. Yancy, President, American Heart Association, dallas Ralph Brindis, President, American College of Cardiology, Washington...
...Japanese public's desire for change goes far beyond the realm of foreign relations. They ushered Hatoyama into office to breathe new life into an ossified political system that proved incapable of reversing the slow-motion decline of Japan's economy and global influence, a phenomenon the Japanese call "Japan passing." Thirty years ago, Japan was much like the China of today, an up-and-coming global power with an economy that was the envy of the world. Japanese companies such as Sony, Toyota and Honda shoved aside their competition from the West. By the late 1980s, Americans came...