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...hospital. But governments bar such hospitals from treating new patients above a certain age, usually 17. So teenage cancer patients are scattered through the health system, many being seen by oncologists more used to treating the cancers of middle and old age. These doctors, argue their pediatric counterparts, tend to back off on dosages too quickly, not appreciating how much more resilient younger people are. "Pediatric doctors are used to causing side effects and illness," says Marshall. "We accept that, because we know that there's a cure...
...People tend to understand and accept the parts of the copyright law that make sense to them. And we tend to behave in ways we think it’s unlikely will get us into trouble. I would argue that as long as finding KaZaA users to sue remains as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, industry executives will probably not turn their efforts towards cracking down on college iTunes users or even Wirehog, unless they feel they can sue Apple or Mark Zuckerberg and get the software itself removed from the market...
...Surgeon General is making it easy: if you go to hhs.gov/familyhistory you can use the Frequently Asked Questions link to find out which diseases tend to run in families, which ones you should be most and least worried about, and what to do if, like me, your parents and grandparents have passed away. You can also download a free piece of software called My Family Health Portrait, which helps you organize the information. The program prints that out in an easy-to-read form you can give to your doctors...
...were able to do that, our population would continue to decline for decades because we've got an old population, and that means a higher death rate." Last year's RAND study found that countries that invest in policies to make it easier to have and raise children tend to have higher fertility rates than those that don't. The parade example is France, which after Ireland has the highest rate in Europe, 1.89. "France has always had a strong family policy," says demographer Marie-Thérèse Letablier of the Center for Employment Studies near Paris...
...added pressure now because of this licensing deal, that the band will feel compelled to out-gimmick themselves to cater to a new audience. I don’t see it. The USPS isn’t known for its discerning tastes in indie rock. I tend to think they’ll be satisfied no matter what the next record sounds like. And any new fans the band wins through product placement in post offices across the country are gravy to them now. At the end of the day it’ll be their same old constituency shelling...