Word: presbyterian
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...original members who obtained the charter, writes in an e-mail that a book by former professor of music Elliot Forbes ’40, now deceased, has created a legacy of confusion.“Forbes fails to mention the two productions at the Congregational-Presbyterian Church in Cambridge—‘Princess Ida’ and ‘Yeomen of the Guard’—which were the real, immediate forerunners of the HRG&SP,” Forbes writes. “In those productions, most of the people who would...
Doctors diagnose173,000 cases of lung cancer in patients each year, 95% of whom will die from it--more than from breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. But New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers found that low-dose, spiral-computed-tomography (CT) screening drastically improved the odds. In a study of 31,567 people, annual CT screening (about 600 images per scan) detected Stage 1 lung cancer in 412 patients, and when the cancer was surgically removed within one month of diagnosis, their 10-year survival rate was an impressive...
...Lung-cancer patients' 10-year survival rate when Stage I cancer is detected and treated early. A new study by researchers at New York--Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center suggests annual CT lung scans could save millions of lives...
...novel, and if it's true, a lot of political strategists will be up late digesting the Baylor numbers. But for the average reader, the big drawback of the study at present is that its categories do not have a natural ring to them. It was easy to understand "Presbyterian" or "frequent churchgoer." It's a lot harder to figure out what Baylor means by its Critical God, who "does not interact with the world. Nevertheless... still observes the world and views the current state of the world unfavorably." If you walked through the average church, where Baylor claims...
...benefits of the chambers, which basically pump a high concentration of oxygen into patients under deep-sea pressures. The pure oxygen flows into the bloodstream, helping with wounds that might otherwise be difficult or impossible to heal, says Dr. Jeff Stone, medical director at the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit at Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas. The chambers have helped diabetics, cancer victims and people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. And sports? "It's a very interesting field, but we need research before the efficacy is known," Stone said. He's never had Owens...