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...people who have had or are undergoing a heart attack, according to Julie E. Buring, principal investigator of the study. The study, which will be published in the print edition of the New England Journal of Medicine later this month, found that aspirin can reduce the risk of stroke in women, but has little or no effect on the risk of heart attack. The opposite is found in studies conducted with male participants, the study said. Researchers said that the study highlights the role of genetics in medicine. “Perhaps we have to think about drugs along gender...
...positively alarmed by the trend. "Kids that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman, chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Decades of research (not to mention common sense) indicate that the quality of one's output and depth of thought deteriorate as one attends to ever more tasks. Some are concerned about the disappearance of mental downtime to relax and reflect. Roberts notes Stanford students...
...than the average 18-year-old freshman. Myat San, from Singapore, faced two and a half years of service after graduating from high school. And the first three months of training were no walk in the park. “A lot of people come out with injuries, heat stroke, broken bones, broken ankles,” he says. Myat San left the army after two years to attend Harvard on a military scholarship. When he returns to Singapore, he plans to complete his term and work for the government for five years. Shira Kaplan...
...People need to think about the possibility of these disruptions now, Sandman argues. What if you couldn?t get to a pharmacy for three months to fill a prescription for high blood pressure medication, placing you at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke? Have you thought about where and how you?d take care of someone in your family who got sick, to avoid infecting anyone else in the house? What if enough truck drivers who deliver chlorine to water treatment plants get sick that the water in your community is no longer treated? Is there a stock...
...future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...