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Even then, TPA is not without risks. Because it thins the blood, it can also worsen a stroke by causing bleeding into the brain. "You can't know [in advance] which patient will have serious adverse effects," says Dr. John Marler of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who headed the nih study of TPA. But some specialists believe the risk of bleeding from TPA is greater a couple of hours after the stroke. And they are adamant that the drug should never be used after three hours. Neurologists are now learning the subtle signs by which...
...charges against Jennifer's mother, however, is the fact that it took more than four years of warnings before state authorities placed the child under protective custody. Nurses at Coral Springs Medical Center began noticing as early as 1991--when Jennifer was just four--that her condition seemed to worsen whenever her mother visited. A formal complaint was filed, and the hospital had her records reviewed by Dr. Eli Newberger, a Munchausen expert at Boston's Children's Hospital. His conclusion: this was a clear case of Munchausen...
Another strategy the report discusses is to actually allow the war in Chechnya to worsen. When things became bad enough, as the report puts it, Yeltsin could declare "an emergency concentration of power in the hands of the President for the sake of restoring constitutional order." There is no provision in the Russian constitution that allows for canceling elections because of a state of emergency. However, the rules for imposing a state of emergency do empower the President to ban meetings and mass rallies and to suspend political parties. Holding elections under such restrictions would be almost impossible...
...floor of support for the neediest. Good intentions aside, the political realities in state capitols haven't changed much since. afdc benefit levels, which are set by the states, have fallen on average 47% in real terms since 1970. There's reason to fear that these trends would worsen if states had to foot the whole bill. Under today's system of federal matching grants, for example, Mississippi thinks twice about cutting a dollar from welfare because it then loses up to four dollars from the Federal Government. Without this incentive, experts foresee a benefit-stripping "race to the bottom...
...storm will bring anything from 6 to 15 inches of snow and sleet to the area, starting mid-afternoon today, according to the national weather service's branch in Boston. Gusty winds are expected to worsen the travel conditions just as Harvard students scramble to depart safely for the holidays...