Word: risk
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...healthy individuals. The results have been mixed: while some studies showed that aspirin decreased the number of attacks, others failed to demonstrate any benefit at all. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking one aspirin every other day dramatically reduced the risk of an initial heart attack by 47%. Almost simultaneously, another study published in the British Medical Journal found that aspirin made little difference in thwarting heart trouble. Nonetheless, insisted Charles Hennekens, chief investigator in the U.S. trial and himself a test subject, "our study provides the first conclusive evidence that aspirin...
...American study and warn individuals not to take aspirin frequently except under a doctor's care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, cautions that for aspirin-sensitive people a suddenly increased intake of aspirin could be "tragic...
...President of the United States." Stringer says the episode reinforced the need for live television on the evening news. "If we want to sanitize the evening news all the time, where all the edge is taken off for fear of what the audience thinks, we run the risk of going back to the least objectionable programs...
...commanding a clear lead in the media polls can carry as many disadvantages as benefits. A failure to meet high expectations means defeat even when a candidate has finished first. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is expected to win handily in the neighboring New Hampshire primary, but nevertheless cannot risk a strong second place showing by any other candidate...
...weren't sure that the educational value of the trip justified the risks," said Med School Dean of Students Daniel D. Fetterman. "We didn't want to risk a kidnapping or something...