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...Another company within the Evergreen Cooperative group, Ohio Cooperative Solar, offers weatherization services and will soon embark on solar-panel installations - the first a 100-kw system on the roof of the Cleveland Clinic. According to CEO Stephen Kiel, Ohio now has 2 solar megawatts of the 60 the state requires by 2012. "Most installations in Ohio are small," he says. "One hundred kilowatts is a pretty significant system...
...first to tell Dr. Diana Petitti - who found the public backlash "surprising" - that I find it more anxiety-provoking to know that my risk of dying from breast cancer may go up 15% if my insurance carrier decides to agree with her panel's recommendation. Beth Tobey Cholette Penfield...
...Mammogram Melee" failed to address the crux of the controversy [Dec. 7]. What was behind the recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to delay routine mammograms until age 50? The article says the panel "judged that the risks of harm from annual screening outweighed the benefits." But what are those risks? By failing to clarify them, you deprived readers of information they need to make up their own minds about the controversy...
...Given the fury, the French government has launched an inquiry into both the technical glitches that caused the system breakdown and the response by Eurostar officials to the fiasco. For its part, Eurostar has also commissioned an independent panel to review "the problems it has experienced over recent days," according to a statement, although the company has thus far failed to heed calls by British Conservative politicians to fire CEO Richard Brown. Brown has apologized for the inconvenience the interrupted service has caused passengers, but says that sending more trains out to stall on the tracks beneath the channel simply...
...Mammography Guidelines It usually takes a Washington scandal to put the discussion of women's breasts on political agendas, but in November it was a routine update of breast-cancer-screening guidelines by a government panel of medical advisers that stirred up a furor. Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations advised women to begin routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40 and to switch from yearly to biennial screenings; it also advised women to eliminate breast self-exams altogether. Doctors, patients, cancer advocacy groups...