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...Richie, the chief of urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that the study was a good way to compare the two procedures, he critiqued the study’s use of Medicare patients because this limited the population to those over 65 while the median age of those with prostate cancer is in the high...
...gain the most from it. As the College Board report makes clear, the real-world benefit of college is not simply academic: the unemployment rate for those with bachelor's degrees is just half that for people with high school diplomas alone. Among those with bachelor's degrees, the median family income was $101,099 in 2008 - twice the family income for high school graduates...
...recorded the treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with that of terminal-cancer patients. Thirty-one residents suffered major health events, such as seizure, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart attack or stroke, but only in rare cases did those events lead to death. Only seven patients had a major event during...
MIT’s endowment outperformed its peers this past year. According to investment consulting firm Wilshire Associates the median large endowment this past year generated an investment loss of roughly 18 percent. “Investments in the fixed income, marketable alternative, real asset, and real estate arenas helped offset significant declines in public and private equity portfolios,” the MIT press release stated...
...team offers 57 athletic scholarships on average over the previous two years.“That’s how they looked at it,” Murphy says of Fordham. “The going rate those schools will give you to play, probably the median is somewhere around half a million dollars. So if you can know that you’re going to get half a million dollars with one FBS game, then you can make the numbers work.”So with its sister conference seemingly headed down a path towards athletic scholarships...