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...some of whom carried the short allele form of the gene 5-HTTLPR - a genetic condition found in about 40% of the general population and long associated with low self-control, binge drinking and substance use. Half of the participants were randomly enrolled in drug prevention programs. After five years, those participants with 5-HTTLPR who were enrolled in a prevention program were no more likely than their counterparts in the comparison group, without the gene, to have engaged in drinking, smoking marijuana, and sexual activity. Youths with the gene, who were in the comparison group, were twice as likely...
Overseas, however, physicians have prescribed metoclopramide more liberally, and Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the University of Toronto's Motherisk Program for the study of antenatal drugs, saw an opportunity to address divided concerns about the medication. Collaborating with a large HMO in Israel, he and his multinational colleagues studied metoclopramide use in pregnant women and its association with babies' health outcomes - specifically, birth defects, premature birth, low birth weight, Apgar score (which provides an immediate measure of a baby's physical condition at birth) and infant death...
...poverty level is 14% of their income - an amount that health-care experts do not consider to be onerous. Though not spelled out at this point, the bill will include "hardship" exemptions. More importantly, it would also feature a big expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to the poor, though lawmakers are still awaiting figures from the Congressional Budget Office that would indicate how much bigger they could make the existing program...
...Silverglate stressed the importance of reforming Harvard College’s Administrative Board, which he called “the worst” disciplinary body in the country. Freedman, who is more focused on the curriculum, argued that Harvard should implement an optional great books program in spite of the financial crisis...
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