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...Overdose Problem For the most recent study of overdose risk, researchers examined the medical records of nearly 10,000 chronic-pain patients being treated within a Washington State health plan between 1997 and 2005. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in January, the study found that 51 patients had experienced overdose - six of them fatal. The overall risk of overdose was small, but it was clearly associated with the dose of the medication originally prescribed: patients receiving the highest doses were nearly nine times more likely to overdose than patients on the lowest doses. "The overall risk among people...
...study of fourth and fifth grade teacher evaluations sheds light on the unique circumstances girls face during childhood. Fifty-four percent of negative criticism directed at boys centered on their intellectual capacity, while inadequate intelligence was cited as the problem in nearly ninety percent of girls’ negative criticism. Under these skewed perceptions and low expectations, girls are not poised to develop the same confidence in their abilities as boys, playing into their risk-averse nature...
...quality of trial lawyers in Texas, and really all over the so-called death-penalty belt - the Southeast of the U.S. - was typically abysmal. Over the past five years, the quality of trial lawyering has gotten vastly better. There are still a handful of bad lawyers. [But] today the problem is that there aren't any resources. You can have the world's greatest lawyer. And if the lawyer doesn't have resources [to hire experts], then it doesn't matter...
...Sporting white shirts and black bottoms, the U.S. men's team looked fine. The problem was that they played lousy (the American women, at 2-5, are faring no better). After winning a bronze medal as a member of the 2006 U.S. team, John Shuster, who works as a bartender on a northern Minnesota golf course, decided he wanted to captain his own team. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...
...dancing has always had a bit of a credibility problem. And at the Vancouver Games, it didn't earn any more respect when the Germans showed up in Hawaiian luau threads and the Russians dressed as Australian Aborigines. How can these people expect to be taken seriously? Where's the athleticism? Where's the sport? Is this anything that can be called Olympic? If ice dancing really wants to enjoy a boost, skating officials should take a few lessons from TV - and from Dancing with the Stars...