Word: leade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drug-maker would call that a success. But the ultimate goal of treatment isn't simply to give you lab results you can boast about, it's to make you feel better and live longer; those are the patient outcomes. Sometimes though, good surrogate outcomes don't lead to good patient outcomes. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, raises good cholesterol, which helps reduce the risk heart disease. But it also makes the blood more likely to clot, which raises the heart disease risk. A cancer treatment that shrinks the size of a tumor is of limited value...
...Rapport says longitudinal studies have failed to show that Ritalin or other psychostimulants have consistent long-term behavioral effects. (Even if they did, another question would arise: Would you want to be dependent on a stimulant for the rest of your life?) Rapport hopes that his work will lead to the development of early behavioral and cognitive interventions that could help the youngest ADHD kids recognize, predict and somehow avoid ADHD's concentration gaps...
...That suggests that we do have a good place to start," says lead author Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health. Capitalizing on that start, however, requires identifying the main factors that are stopping hospitals from adopting EHR, and Jha and his colleagues tried to do that as well...
...record to 4-2 (1-0 Ivy.)“The game was hard fought,” said co-captain and defensive standout Max Gotschall. “Unfortunately we didn’t come out on the winning side.”The Crimson constantly switching leads with the Hoyas, but the emotional rollercoaster reached its break point in the last minute of regulation play, with two high-pressure goals occurring in the very limited time frame.As the clock wound down in the fourth quarter, with the two teams trapped in a 7-7 deadlock, Georgetown appeared...
President Obama holds his first meeting with the leader of one of America's closest allies on March 24, a man whose climb to power in many ways mirrors his own. Like Obama, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd beat an older, more conservative rival to lead his country, riding a wave of opposition to the Iraq War and support for more action on issues such as health care and climate change. Both men are intellectuals from modest backgrounds, they lost fathers to car accidents at young ages, and a series of international crises are filling both their inboxes...