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...Still, the screening tool may be extremely useful in prompting high-risk people to start doing whatever they can to protect themselves from future memory loss. "This study has taken a number of earlier findings on risk factors and combined them into a fairly impressive predictor of risk," says Dr. Ralph Nixon, vice chair of the medical and scientific advisory council for the Alzheimer's Association. The new index accurately predicts dementia in 81% of cases. (The midlife tool predicts dementia accurately 78% of the time...
...Government is not a beast. If the banks are the life support of the economy, our various governments are the sine qua non for our quality of life. They mete out justice, protect us from violence and environmental degradation, educate our children, construct our infrastructure, provide medical care to the aged and disadvantaged, and are the expression of our common values and democratic choices. The consequences of depriving our state and local governments of critical funding will be felt at a very human level by our most vulnerable citizens. The private cost of public poverty cuts to the heart...
...have analyzed the terms of these endowments to identify areas where the endowment income can be used, in line with the donors’ intent, to make a positive impact within the FAS or for interdisciplinary priorities of the FAS across the University. These changes will serve to protect our academic programs from unnecessary reductions...
Americans’ concerns about catching the H1N1 swine flu have decreased substantially over the past week, though more people have been taking action to protect themselves, according to a Harvard School of Public Health survey released Friday. The survey, conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at HSPH, is the first comprehensive nation-wide survey that polls the reactions, beliefs, level of alarm about the outbreak. Results were announced through the Center for Disease Control, which funds the survey, as part of the CDC’s daily update on swine flu. This is the second HSPH survey...
Central to this task is the question of how best to balance protection, mobility and survivability in one vehicle. Lighter weight combat vehicles are key to rapid deployment but vehicles built for heavy combat are more likely to survive explosive encounters. IED protection for prospective vehicles could be improved with V-shaped hulls that would better divert the force of the bombs. Additional armor could also be added to the existing designs of the 27-ton vehicles to better protect against RPGs and, just in case, enemy tank fire. The Army Research Lab could also receive more funding to speed...