Word: priore
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...researchers, led by Thomas Gaziano at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, trawled through data on 6,186 American adults participating in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Participants were initially examined in the early 1970s and had no prior history of cardiovascular disease; they were tracked for 21 years, during which time 1,529 of the participants suffered cardiovascular events (such as heart attacks, stroke, angina or heart failure), including 578 deaths due to heart disease...
...Koncsol ’08 said, “I feel like a lot of guys aren’t going to come to something called ‘Female Genital Mutilation.’” Few of the attendees said that they had a lot of prior knowledge about female circumcision. Most said that they had heard the term but didn’t know much about it. The most vocal participants had experience with the issue. Megan A. Shutzer ’10, for instance, said she had spent time in Senegal working with the organization...
...pain medicine, rose from the ranks of a resident and a fellow in the 1970s to chair of the hospital’s anesthesia department in 2000. A year later, Josef E. Fischer became the new head of the surgery department at Beth Israel. The lawsuit alleges that, prior to his appointment, Fischer already had a reputation for being “‘old style,’ with a demonstrated tendency to be abusive to—and unable to work with—professional women.” The suit alleges that Fischer once...
...team at Facebook, we’ll be able to scale this company into a global leader and enable Facebook users worldwide to communicate and share information better,” Sandberg said in a statement. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity.” Prior to her six-year stint at Google, Sandberg was chief-of-staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers when he served as secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001. “Sheryl is an extraordinarily capable, organized, decisive, and caring person who will do great things...
...wanted to nip in the bud, before the Olympics, any chance that the number of refugees would turn into a flood this year," says one diplomat who has followed the issue. "They've really tried to crack down on the border." Beijing isn't motivated purely by image concerns prior to Beijing 2008. The manufacturing economy in China's northeast, home to many state-owned companies, has slowed. "The Chinese already have plenty of surplus labor in that part of the country; they don't need or want any more, and that message has been conveyed to Pyongyang," the diplomat...