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Wednesday's stronger-than-expected data on durable-goods orders (up 3.4% in February, but from a January number that had been revised downward) was a "slim silver lining on the horizon," UniCredit Research economist Harm Bandholz wrote in a note to clients. But, he was quick to point out, "investment and exports continue to plummet." (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...only the cure were that easy. Any doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of information for research, screen automatically for drug interactions - and spare others from having to decipher our illegible handwriting. I would be happy if every patient could give me a digital file of everything about him; it could really save time on first visits. But we must keep in mind that there will be a cost for computerizing patient records that could prove greater than the billions that would...
...which treatments are most effective seems eminently sensible. Certain heart patients, for example, do just as well with clot-busting drugs as they would with angioplasty procedures, which typically cost thousands more. Crunching huge amounts of data from a wide cross section of patients could help us do better research than we are doing now. But what will happen when the new computerized research turns up a treatment that works a little better but costs a lot more? Will the government-sponsored researchers tell us? What happens to the patient whose particular circumstances argue for a different treatment from what...
...hear your eyes rolling. But some claim there's actually something to the idea that humans can alter the physical world with their minds, and they offer research to prove it. Dean Radin, a senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, Calif., conducted a test in which, he says, subjects who ate Intentional Chocolate improved their mood 67% compared with people who ate regular chocolate. "If the Pope blessed water, everyone wants that water. But does it actually do something?" Radin asks. "The answer is yes, to a small extent...
...event mostly covered matters that had already been handled. He defended his budget in the face of the extraordinary deficits it would produce under economic projections by the Congressional Budget Office, projections the White House believes are overly pessimistic. He described his decision to fund expanded stem-cell research as a difficult ethical one. He said that aside from some of the understandable elation around his Inauguration, he did not believe that his race had figured much in his first 64 days in office...