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...understand how that should influence their treatment of the individual in front of them." What's more, some insurance companies have been very aggressive in using evidence-based arguments to deny payment for untested treatments--a circular problem, because how do you create the evidence the insurers demand unless you test the untested...
...dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with three talks on that most current of topics. On other trips, you might get a tutorial on alpine photography or mountain ecology...
...fewer heart attacks in the statin group (about 30% fewer in one real-world trial). Reducing the risk by a third sounds like a lot, which is one reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group of thousands...
...don’t really matter, because she loves her body, of course—buzzes to a crowd of excitable college girls about their need for increased awareness of sexual health and politics. Also, their need for orgasms—you’re not a real woman unless you’ve had lots of them, and the reason you’re not having them is that your boyfriend is a chauvinist...
...Alternatively, visiting a psychiatrist to try to pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street might be useful. Visiting a strip club is not going to help her become a fuller person—unless she’s looking for a backup plan to investment banking, in which case she should make a detour to the gym, too. The only value in FemSex, it seems, is in parody...