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...contracts Disease X dies of it at age 70. If you receive your diagnosis at age 67, you'll be gone well before the 10-year threshold is reached. Now imagine a new technology that spots early signs of the disease at age 57. If everyone gets the test, the 10-year survival rate soars to 100%, but no one in fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection may in fact make a difference in how long someone lives, but in order to determine how big that difference is, you need...
...study was small - just 23 boys ages 8 to 12 participated - but uncompromisingly meticulous; it took four years to recruit, screen and test the participants and to analyze the results. Twelve of the boys had an ADHD diagnosis. The other 11 were developing normally. All underwent a battery of tests at Rapport's lab over four consecutive Saturdays...
Wearing the actigraph, I sat before a computer in a small windowless room and took working-memory tests. For one test, I had to recite aloud a series of numbers that appeared on the screen. I was asked not only to remember the numbers but also to restate them in proper numerical order. So if I saw 4, then 3, then 1, then 8, I had to say, "One, three, four, eight." Each series of numbers also included a random letter, which I had to state at the end: "One, three, four, eight...
...Junior Roxanne Pinto and Smith recorded Harvard’s scores against the tough Cardinal defense. On the defensive end, Perlman had six saves between the pipes for the Crimson. Harvard dropped to 4-7 on the season. “This week will be a test of our endurance,” Smith said. “We’re playing almost everyday against some challenging opponents...
...which has four doors and seats four adults, doesn't feel like a lightweight on the road. I drove one on an empty test track at Tata Motors' main plant in the western Indian city of Pune and found that, while the interior is spartan, the Nano handles as well as any of the other low-end minicars available in India. The brakes lack feel and there's little storage space, but the car turned heads. Our photographer drove a bright yellow Nano - this one fully equipped with air-conditioning - through the highways, cobbled avenues and side streets of Pune...