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...thermostat controls the temperature in your house. But if you're female and 50 or older--or love someone who is--you need to consider whether the old thermostat is still working. Last week the American College of Physicians, a conservative arbiter of treatment standards, recommended a blood test for thyroid disorders at least once every five years for all women in this age group...
Fortunately, there is a fairly simple blood test, called a TSH test, that helps doctors determine whether you have a thyroid disorder. The cost ranges from $30 to $50, but the test can be conducted as part of a regular battery of blood work for cholesterol and other substances...
Having an advanced degree, of course, is no bar to updating your skills. Take the case of Eva Wisnik, 35, a New York City career strategist and executive recruiter, who found that a special one-week $875 program in Fairfax, Va., on administering a career-assessment test was more valuable to her than her M.B.A., which cost $20,000 and took four years to complete on a part-time basis. "I have earned at least $45,000 from administering this test to about 900 people over the past few years," she reports. "This is far more than any actual earnings...
Every time a new horror story appears describing a teaching debacle--a Connecticut teacher helped her students cheat on the state's basic skills test but ended up with only a 30-day suspension--the pressure on states to change tenure laws grows. And the movement gained support last month when Democratic Senator John Kerry joined his G.O.P. colleague Al D'Amato in calling to "end teacher tenure as we know it." That's too late to help Ms. God's students, but not their younger siblings...
...with Viagra usage have been explained away as the normal result of, well, old men having sex for the first time in a while. But on its surface, Padro?s case seems stronger: His doctor gave him the pills after a checkup that included a cardiogram and treadmill stress test. And Padro says he has no history of heart trouble. The case could be troublesome for both Pfizer and the FDA, which approved Viagra for use regardless...