Word: programer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sanjay Sharma disagrees. A cardiologist at King's College Hospital in London and one of the authors of the British Journal of Sports Medicine's study, Sharma believes that results from Italy - which instituted a nationwide ECG screening program for athletes in 1983 - provides enough evidence of the effectiveness of an ECG to override the AHA's concerns. Analyzing data from 42,000 athletes in the northeastern Veneto region of the country from 1979 to 2004, Italian researchers found that ECG screening resulted in an almost 90% drop in sudden cardiac deaths. Incidence of SCD among the unscreened nonathletic population...
...more, some cardiologists believe that physical examinations can be equally effective in uncovering heart defects in athletes. A non-ECG screening of high school and college athletes in the U.S. from 1983 to 1993 resulted in an annual death rate as low as in the Italian ECG screening program - although some cardiologists have disputed the methodology of the study that examined the U.S. screening program. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Sharma says he became convinced of the need for ECG tests through his work as head of the screening program for British athletes, for which he screens players in soccer's Premier League and Britain's Lawn Tennis Association as well as amateur athletes on behalf of a British cardiac-risk charity. He hopes to publish the results of his work in the coming years. "It's very difficult to justify cost-effectiveness of ECG screening without using an emotive argument," he says. "We've screened 8,000 British athletes and have picked up a potentially fatal condition...
...ever seen, about really giving high priority to [laid-off employees] for open jobs.” He said that 32 laid off staff workers have already found new jobs at Harvard—an accomplishment he attributes to the Union’s strong work security program and productive collaboration with University administrators. He said that he could not say exactly how many unionized workers had been laid off in June, due to ambiguities such as voluntary layoffs and job offers with fewer hours, but that the figure fell somewhere between 100 and 130. Jaeger also said that...
...budget cuts, Harvard’s Language Resource Center will no longer offer students free memberships to Rosetta Stone, a self-study language computer program. Year-long subscriptions to the program, which had been available free of charge exclusively to students for the past two years, will now be available to both students and staff for $110, 20 percent of the $539 market price. According to Associate Dean Robert G. Doyle, free access to Rosetta Stone had not previously been available to staff because funding only covered students. The LRC had been willing to pay full price for the second...