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...that women are simply at lower risk of heart disease than men. You would need a powerful treatment to lower an already low risk. Researchers also don't know why women are more likely than men to suffer side effects from statins and many other drugs but posit that lower body weight and hormonal fluctuations play a role. Biological explanations aside, the larger point is the same: with any treatment, the benefits should outweigh the risks...
...Naisbitts posit eight future developments for China; none are insightful. There's "Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones," which meant something when Deng Xiaoping uttered this maxim of pragmatic, step-by-step reform, but has become little more than a cliché three decades on. "Emancipation of the Mind" also looks tired after an entire generation of Chinese has grown up with an openness unimaginable to their parents...
InSight Software Posit Science's $395 program is designed to aid memory and speed up thinking. But only one InSight exercise has undergone extensive independent testing, which showed it improves driving safety...
...much of anything? In a study published in April in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, scientists at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Southern California used standardized memory tests to assess 487 healthy adults over the age of 65, half of whom were asked to complete Posit's two-month brain-fitness program. The results of the Posit-funded study show that the software users improved their mental speed by about 60% compared with 7% in the control group...
Afterward, nearly half of the Posit users noted improvements in everyday situations like remembering names or following conversations in a noisy restaurant, but so did 40% of the control group - and all they had to do during the study was watch the History Channel and get quizzed...