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...doctoral student in epidemiology at the School of Public Health—and colleagues, the study followed a group of Swedish women between the ages of 40 and 74 for over a decade. The findings revealed that the women who drank five or more cups of coffee per week had a 32 percent reduced relative risk of getting a heart attack compared with the women who drank zero to four cups per week, Rosner said. Rosner added that there was no significant inverse association between coffee drinking and heart attacks, however. Among coffee drinkers in the United States, the average...
...particular, the pointed grumbling of Mather representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 about the allegedly inflated per capita funding for Dudley House residents forced Joshua G. Allen ’09 to ask Petersen to call the meeting to order...
...have the leashes removed and allowed to do what we had been trained for," he told TIME. "It was exciting and at the same time nerve-wracking. I would describe the sensation of modern warfare, or at least as it was for us 25 years ago, as 99 per cent boring, routine, intense and repetitive, and then 1 per cent terror and frenetic activity when an attack came in." He added: "The speed of attack was so much faster than in previous campaigns, as the aircraft were all jet-powered and the missiles were intelligent rather than the propeller-driven...
...Shuwetij is one of a shrinking number of doctors who remain in Iraq. Thousands of physicians have fled the unrelenting violence in Iraq, where militants have murdered hundreds of doctors in recent years. The World Health Organization estimates that Iraq has less than seven doctors per 10,000 people. In neighboring Jordan, where many Iraqis have resettled, the number of physicians per person is more than double that, with at least two doctors per 1,000 people. Iraq's health care infrastructure is crumbling, too. Iraq's health ministry has estimated that nearly 90% of the country's medical facilities...
...health care in Iraq little better than many of the least developed countries in the world. Infant mortality, a key indicator of public health, has risen in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003. The most recent statistics from the Iraqi Health Ministry puts infant mortality at 130 deaths per 1,000 births, up from 125 deaths per 1,000 births in 2002. Perhaps most tellingly, life expectancy in Iraq is now is only 58, on average just a year and a half longer than a life in Sudan...