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...study initially designed to assess misdiagnosis rates of asthma among obese people - a population that prior studies suggest suffers more often and more severely from the disease - researchers at the University of Ottawa discovered that doctors may be overdiagnosing asthma in all patients, regardless of weight, by some 30%. "We were bowled over by these results," says Dr. Shawn Aaron, the study's lead author and head of respiratory medicine at the University of Ottawa. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...liberals say the wealthy need to pay their fair share. Well, according to Fortune, in 2006, the wealthiest 3% of taxpayers paid 54% of all income taxes. Democratic President John F. Kennedy reduced the highest marginal tax rate from 90% to 70% because he felt that all taxpayers, regardless of financial status, deserved to keep more of their money. The change led to increased economic activity, more jobs, and more savings. Kent Frederick, Chicago
...Were it simply watched as entertainment, I might not have a problem with “House,” but with patient behavior always a concern, I can’t help but think that the show might build ridiculous expectations for a system that is actually broken. Regardless, I’m going to miss Michael Crichton, his books, and “ER,” and I wonder who he got a seat next to in writer’s heaven. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
Probing further into the nature of sleep, say researchers, may help determine the precise benefits of sleep - largely still a mystery - regardless of age or medical condition...
...make sure that [net neutrality] is the principle that my FCC commissioners are applying as we move forward,” he said. Network neutrality is a concept in network design that states that information should be able to flow freely over networks, including the Internet, “regardless of political ideology or other constraints,” such as content or the origin or destination of the information, according to Co-director of the Berkman Center John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94. For example, Internet providers would not be able to restrict user access...