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...June 28, HCCP—a division of the School of Public Health—launched the website Your Disease Risk, which has interactive tests to assess a person’s risk of acquiring several types of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and stroke...
According to data compiled by HCCP, 900,000 people in the United States die from heart disease and stroke each year. An additional 550,000 succumb to cancer, and 70,000 are killed by diabetes. There are also 1.5 million new cases of osteoporosis diagnosed each year...
...government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter," privately urged state officials to press seditious libel charges against editors unfriendly to his presidency. The advocate of a limited Federal Government and opponent of a permanent standing military doubled the size of the country in one stroke by making the Louisiana Purchase and went to war against Muslim pirates with a brand-new fighting force: the U.S. Marines. "He had outsized talents of statesmanship and outsized talents for self-indulgence," says Roger Wilkins, author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism...
...patients are treated with at least one off-label drug as part of their chemotherapy regimen. And many doctors see the practice as life-saving science. Statins, for example, were initially approved to lower cholesterol but are now heavily prescribed (and blessed by regulators) to prevent heart attacks and stroke. Says Dr. Cary Gross, assistant professor of medicine at Yale: "You can't tell doctors never to try anything except what's been tested." Since 1998, the number of off-label prescriptions has nearly doubled, to around 115 million, according to an analysis by Knight Ridder Newspapers...
...magnets were in the same place on the fridge. We couldn't believe it," says Robin Rose, 45, of Chicago, who helped her in-laws, Don and Edith Rose of Clearwater, Fla., relocate last March. In the midst of the move, her mother-in-law was hospitalized for a stroke. "Mom was so worried she wouldn't be able to find anything," says Robin. "But when she walked in the door, she said, 'This looks just like our old home.' All the china and glassware were in the right spot in the hutch...