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...because it “seemed like fun.” But the Harvard rookie’s rapid improvement becomes even more striking given the fundamental changes from high school competition to collegiate field hockey. Despite Tassopoulos’ past success, it was difficult to predict at the outset of the season whether anyone could be prepared to assume the role as the Crimson’s lone goalie from...
...pledge he would seek the EPAD job "to the very end." Elsewhere, he and his supporters sought to turn what opponents called his principal advantage into something he depicted as almost a handicap. "Being called Sarkozy makes things harder, which the violent personal attacks I have faced from the outset have proved," Jean told reporters. "Whatever I say, whatever I do, I will be criticized...
...single illness but a collection or consequence of many, including Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease (which accounts for some 70% of all dementia cases). In the advanced stages of dementia, it is often impossible to tell which disease the patient had at the outset, as the end result is the same, according to Mitchell's study: a syndrome of symptoms and complications - eating problems (86%), pneumonia (41%), difficulty breathing (46%), pain (39%) and fever (53%) - caused by brain failure. "Dementia ends up involving much more than just the brain," says Dr. Claudia Kawas, professor of neurology...
...procedure will be extremely painful, for example, they tend to experience significantly more pain than patients who weren't similarly warned. And in double-blind clinical trials of antidepressants, even those participants receiving a sugar pill report side effects like gastrointestinal discomfort if investigators have warned them at the outset that those effects are likely...
...From the outset, the vaccine strategy used in the NIH and U.S. Army study - giving two older vaccines in succession - has been controversial. In previous trials, each vaccine had failed to provide any protection against HIV, and in September 2004 a group of adamant scientists wrote a letter to Science arguing that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases should not to continue with the trial. "We seriously question whether it is sensible now to conduct a ... trial that, in our opinion, is no more likely to generate a meaningful level of protection against infection or disease," they wrote...