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...there some value to giving special treatment to race, culture, and gender? The Supreme Court thinks so (Grutter v. Bollinger), and I completely agree. But I am also proposing a paradigm shift to the view that political and social ideologies are equally important factors in true diversity...
...football but across the sporting world, is for players to exercise personal responsibility over when and how long they compete. This should be the case for all injuries but especially in the case of head trauma. A team’s medical staff is critical to the diagnosis and treatment of injuries, but the player must know the risks involved and be able to make the tough decision of sitting out a big game or staying off of the field for the fourth quarter. This method has been practiced sparingly, the early retirement of Tiki Barber being one lonely example...
Debating Statins The issues addressed in "The Prescription Gender Gap" - which questions the benefits to women of statins - merit context [March 29]. Heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and 3 killers of Americans, including women. Statin therapy as part of a comprehensive treatment regimen that includes lifestyle modification is highly effective for both men and women and is in part responsible for the recent 30% decline in deaths due to heart disease and stroke. It is correct that more women should be enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive...
...Debating Statins The issues addressed in "The Prescription Gender Gap" - which questions the benefits to women of statins - merit context [March 29]. Heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and 3 killers of Americans, including women. Statin therapy as part of a comprehensive treatment regimen that includes lifestyle modification is highly effective for both men and women and is in part responsible for the recent 30% decline in deaths due to heart disease and stroke. It is correct that more women should be enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive...
...Britain has also begun to examine questions of its culpability for civilian deaths. A second public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old receptionist killed in British custody in September 2003, has heard that internal warnings about the treatment of prisoners were ignored. "The procedure for detention and collection of evidence can only be described as a shambles," wrote Lieut. Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the army's senior legal officer in Iraq, in a memo written only months before Mousa's death. A further inquiry has started to examine claims that up to 20 Iraqi detainees were...