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Other researchers say that evidence is muddy. The reduction in cardiovascular events sounds impressive until you take a closer look. Men taking Crestor had a lower risk of hard events, including fatal and nonfatal heart attack and stroke. But the only statistically significant benefits for women treated with Crestor involved less extreme end points, like hospitalization for unstable chest pain and arterial revascularization (a category of procedures that includes major surgery). To prevent one event, 36 women would need to take the statin for five years - a modest result, critics...
After more than a year of bitter political debate and seemingly inescapable congressional deadlock, President Obama sat down in the White House East Room on March 23 and signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law with a stroke of his pen. And then another pen. And another. Obama used 22 pens to sign the landmark $938 billion health care bill. It would seem that either the President has an undiagnosed case of OCD or the White House needs better office supplies. (See pictures of Obama signing the bill...
...stroke victory over the Golden Knights on one of their home courses—on which the Crimson was playing for the first time—marked the third straight win for Harvard, which had closed out its 2009 fall campaign with top finishes in both the Yale Fall Invitational and the Kelly Gutshall Invitational...
After weeks of struggling to generate offense, the Crimson seemed to find its stroke. Sophomore outside hitters Matt Jones and Nicola Ivica had big nights— notching 14 kills each—but Harvard could not keep its Raider counterparts...
Sims, a 6’1” junior, leads the offense and averages 20 points per game. Sims, who possesses a deadly stroke from deep, does much of his damage from the outside, as he shot 42 percent from beyond the arc during the regular season...