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...jitters among savers? "When people hear the words 'emergency' and 'bail out,' then concerns outweigh statements saying 'the bank's solvent,'" says Nic Clarke, banking analyst at Charles Stanley in London. "When it comes to their life savings, when they've got the choice of seven or eight other banks in the High Street where they can walk next door and deposit funds and consider them safe, the majority will do it. It doesn't really matter if the rationale is right or wrong, they're voting with their feet...
Barker has been conducting research on non-life saving transplants, such as those for the hand or face, since 1994. He said all of his analysis has led him to believe that the benefits of a face transplant for the facially disfigured outweigh the negative aspects, regardless of whether or not the patient is already on the immunosuppressant drugs...
...Democratic presidential hopefuls must talk "about the God who guides them and the beliefs that sustain them," then it is doubtful they will come off as genuine. The need to hire "faith advisers" is also telling. The real problem for Democrats is that the policies they back always outweigh the views they express...
...Rick Schweikert, program director of the HERS Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates women about hysterectomy, says he would like to see the surgery go the way of tonsillectomy-effectively phasing it out. HERS compares the procedure to castration and says its many adverse health effects far outweigh any benefits. A recent Foundation survey of women found that those with hysterectomy reported irritability, diminished sexual desire, fatigue and lost genital sensation. Other risks of the surgery include damage to the bladder and bowels. HERS says there are also economic reasons to curb the use of hysterectomy and estimates that...
...question clinicians will need to consider is whether the benefits of CTCA outweigh the risks. In absolute terms, the lifelong attributable risk of cancer per CTCA scan was low, ranging from 0.02% (for an 80-year old man, with the dose-reduction strategy) to 1% (for a 20-year-old woman, with a regular heart and aorta scan). The benefits of CTCA are that it is noninvasive, quick (the test takes about 10 minutes), requires that the patient ingest less contrast dye than with other scans and can be performed immediately in an emergency room when someone is admitted with...