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...response to the publication of a small study indicating that lithium helps people with ALS, the site evaluated the collective experience of its members who had taken the drug and determined that lithium didn't work - a conclusion it reached six months ahead of similar findings from conventional clinical trials. (In an interesting sign of the times, PatientsLikeMe presented its observations in December at the international ALS symposium in Berlin.) Free to patients, the for-profit venture sells pharmaceutical companies the blinded data it compiles from its members about drug safety and efficacy. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
Like many residents in the cluster of towns northeast of Melbourne, Michael Minten and his partner Sharon Collins were caught completely off-guard when last year's 'Black Saturday' infernos swallowed their property in Flowerdale, Victoria. Minten went ahead to work in the morning, leaving Collins at home with their toddler. The sky was a hazy amber as the fire raged in nearby towns, but no one thought the flames would reach Flowerdale. With typical summer temperatures of 115 degrees, Collins did what she usually did on hot days: crank up air-conditioning full-blast, and draw the blinds...
...peak more than 70 men worked at the site. But the outlook is grim for commercial construction firms such as Oltmans and its union work force. Asked if business is picking up, Oltmans Project Manager James Wu, 37, says, "I have not seen it. It's not looking good ahead." (See TIME's cover story on unemployment in the Great Recession...
...hours a week seeing the way so many other 40-hour weeks were spent. I got a chance to play at real life between my study abroad Euro-trip and life back on Harvard time, and now I’m seven minutes behind instead of six hours ahead...
...Einat Wilf had insights [in her thesis] that were 15 years ahead of her time,” Winter says...