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...statins - merit context [March 29]. Heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and 3 killers of Americans, including women. Statin therapy as part of a comprehensive treatment regimen that includes lifestyle modification is highly effective for both men and women and is in part responsible for the recent 30% decline in deaths due to heart disease and stroke. It is correct that more women should be enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive the same degree of benefit from statins. But the benefit is real and far outweighs any risk...
...make the class percentages match the national averages? Studies estimating the percentage of homosexual males in the US population range from 2 percent to 10 percent. However, it is possible that the percentage of homosexual students at a university, such as Harvard, might be higher. Recent research suggests that homosexual male college students are, on average, more academically inclined and have higher grade point averages than their heterosexual counterparts...
...jewelry boutique called Tesoro will open on Bow Street next week—a sign of the stability of the Harvard Square business community despite the country’s recent financial challenges...
Passions about illegal immigration run high in Arizona, a point of entry for thousands of undocumented workers going to the U.S. from Mexico, and tensions were heightened by the recent murder of a rancher in a remote border area where illegal crossings are rampant. With 6.6 million residents, Arizona's illegal-immigrant population is estimated to be half a million people. (See the great wall of America on the Mexico border...
...Premier League teams not included in UEFA's sums, in February became the top flight's first franchise to fall into bankruptcy.) The leveraged buyouts by American investors of top clubs Manchester United and Liverpool, meanwhile, were "acting principally as a burden" on those clubs, UEFA added in the recent report, "rather than to support investment or spending." That's because the new owners piled the debts incurred in buying the clubs onto the teams' own finances, limiting the cash available for buying new players and therefore the clubs' ability to compete with better-endowed rivals. (See a group...