Word: risking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Advisers. If you're a novice investor tempted to buy on margin, using leverage is O.K., but you may need to set aside more money than you think to play this game. If you buy on margin, better to stick to high-quality equities, which have a lower downside risk. Borrowing to buy volatile Internet stocks is walking the high wire. And right now that wire is really, really high...
...past 25 years, doctors in the U.S. have warned their patients about the dangers of high blood pressure, a generally symptomless condition that increases the risk of heart disease, kidney failure and stroke. By aggressively treating folks whose readings exceed the normal limit of 140/90 mm Hg at rest, physicians have prevented millions of premature deaths and untold suffering. But it looks as if we've stopped getting the message. A national health survey released two years ago showed that blood-pressure rates are no longer falling; at the same time, the incidence of stroke has started to rise...
...corpuscles. Fearing mad-cow disease, the FDA last week barred anyone who had visited Britain for a total of six months between 1980 and 1996 from donating blood. Many stars shot at least four British-based films in that time, which could put them over the limit. The at-risk...
BONING UP Women with osteoporosis may reduce the risk of spinal fracture by 50% with the drug raloxifene--one of the new alternatives to bone-building estrogen being prescribed to postmenopausal women. Not bad, considering that two months ago data suggested a remarkable side benefit to raloxifene: the drug may lower the risk of breast cancer as much...
...WORLD Thinking of donating blood? Don't bother--in fact, you won't be allowed to--if you were in Britain for a total of six months or more between 1980 and 1996. U.S. health officials worry about the theoretical risk that blood could be contaminated with mad-cow disease. Theoretical, indeed. There's no evidence yet that the brain disease can be transmitted by a blood transfusion...