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...team used data compiled by the Women’s Health Study (WHS) to track 38,025 women from 1993 through 1999. The other team focused on 85,060 women identified by the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), who were tracked for 18 years, and 42,872 men chosen from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, who were tracked for 12 years...
...magnesium played a positive role in reducing type II diabetes risk in both studies, the results of the two studies were not identical. The WHS team concluded that only overweight and obese women would have a reduced risk of type II diabetes onset with increased magnesium intake, whereas the NHS study found that both men and women of all weight groups would have decreased type II diabetes risk...
...Saatchi Gallery director Nigel Hurst says that Tate Modern looks after the last century, whereas the new gallery focuses on the last 20 years: "It's very much art of the moment." Saatchi has donated some works to the nation, including gifts to the Arts Council Collection and to NHS hospitals. He will continue to give bursaries to art schools, and sponsored young artists will show their work in the County Hall Boiler Room, a former storeroom. But it looks as though he is sometimes weeding out unwanted works, purging his collection of movements that never traveled anywhere, like...
...Mulgan is a big exponent of putting more government online and on the phone. The National Health Service already has nhs Direct, a 24-hour telephone hotline and website intended to improve access for patients and ease pressure on doctors and nurses. In five years, he says, "probably two-thirds of British households will be online." If a government website lets expectant parents, say, book their medical appointments, compare prices for childcare in their area, learn about programs for kids with special needs and sign up for the new "baby bond," "these are all step-changes in service that people...
Opponents say that is not enough to actually maintain the park, and that they doubt that NHS will keep its commitments to the land...