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...VITRO VERITAS In vitro fertilization can be a harrowing experience. To raise the likelihood of getting a healthy embryo, women inject themselves daily with powerful medication that stimulates the ovaries to produce extra eggs. Now British researchers have experimented with drug-free IVF, using just the single ovum a woman naturally produces each month. After an average of four tries, a woman's chances of having a baby were about 35%--only slightly lower than her odds in many IVF programs...
American politics comes packaged for us every morning--the lesson of the day wrapped in morning headlines. No one is quite certain where the media's assumed political messages come from; they are the old wives' tales of CNN. In all likelihood these rules came from an opinion poll--a Dick Morris poll at that. Yet legitimate or not, CNN pundits, newspaper columnists and fast talkers who speak more quickly than they edit continually repeat certain maxims for Americans...
...three months. For some reason, Houston never did get that assessment. Now prosecutors have asked a judge to reopen the charges against her. If convicted, Houston could be singing the jailhouse blues for up to 30 days. On the brighter side, if she has to serve, there's a likelihood that she'll forget the whole experience a few days later...
Students say this kind of confusion reduces the likelihood that they will seek help at UHS when they need it, or that others will seek it on their behalf...
...heart attack by shrinking artery-choking plaques. As it turns out, lowering cholesterol levels doesn't change the size of the plaques very much. But it makes them less reactive, thereby lowering the chances that they will rupture. Similarly, even a modest reduction in blood pressure decreases the likelihood that a plaque will burst, reducing the risk of both heart attack and stroke. The payoff can be huge. "It isn't just a matter of living an extra day," explains Dr. James Cleeman, coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program at the National Institutes of Health. "Avoiding strokes and heart...