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...years old. But the task force determined that while mammograms certainly reduced risk of death, that reduction was small in this age group in light of the risks associated with the screening. In order to save one life among 40- to 49-year-olds, doctors would have to perform yearly mammograms in 1,904 women over 10 years. Among older women, between ages 50 and 74, one death could be prevented for every 1,339 women screened for 10 years. Risks of screens include anxiety over inconclusive images that require additional testing, as well as the psychological and physical costs...
...with anesthesia and the other elements of modern surgery. Dr. Dwight Harken, a young Army surgeon, managed to remove shrapnel and bullets from some 130 soldiers' chests without killing one. Buoyed by such successes, in the postwar years surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that lasted longer than four minutes, because the interruption in circulation caused brain damage. That changed in 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon Jr. of Philadelphia used a heart-lung respirator to keep an 18-year-old patient alive for 27 minutes while he repaired a hole in her heart...
Look no further than the Adams Dining Hall for the showing of the man behind the one man show, “The Matt Show – Matt Corriel ’05 sings Matt Corriel ’05.” Corriel, who will perform his one-man show in New York City on November 18 with the support of Harvardwood, serves as Adams House’s resident songwriter and tutor for the dramatic arts. While he was not able to reserve a space to coincide with his exact birth date (November...
...some of the music. In the film, there are several sequences when you’re just seeing them perform their music...
...sure, of course. I mean, I asked them to explain. When I first saw them perform and they had the flaming machetes, I was a little taken aback, and it certainly conformed to them and the image that they were from the ’hood, Puerto Rican, and America’s worst nightmare. When I first met them, I thought the flaming machetes were a little over the top. But as I got to know them, I realized that these men were just really funny and that they’re good showmen and they?...