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...kind of attention and stimulation they need. There are also concerns about children's safety in prisons, which are often not adequately childproof, and about the availability of adequate medical care. Then there are the potential long-term psychological effects. "Our concern is that kids will think prison is normal," says Bobbi Costa, executive director of Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims in Washington State. "We have to be concerned for our younger generation and what values they are developing...
With older children, the task becomes trying to maintain some semblance of normal mother-child relations. In Plymouth, Mich., the Children's Visitation Program runs parenting-skills classes at the women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council...
...sure to generate lively debate in New Orleans later this month at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association. Just two weeks ago, a study in the British Medical Journal concluded that statins could reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack 30% even among those with normal cholesterol levels and no sign of cardiovascular disease. Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb have gone so far as to petition the Food and Drug Administration to allow consumers to buy some low-dose statins over the counter, without first having to obtain a physician's prescription (more...
Their next question had even wider implications: Could statins decrease the risk of heart attack in people with "normal" cholesterol levels and no history of heart disease? But here researchers ran into an ethical dilemma. Considering everything they knew about the effectiveness of statins, would it be fair in a test of their theory to withhold the drugs from those who might benefit from them but would be given a placebo, or dummy pill...
...things now stand. In the absence of new clinical trials, the researchers who reported in the British Medical Journal used complex mathematical analyses of four previous studies to conclude that statins can reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack even in men and women with normal cholesterol levels and no signs of heart disease. Since this population is fairly healthy, however, doctors might need to treat 250 or more people to save a single life. A bargain for the one whose life is spared, but not so great for the majority, who would not only bear the expense...