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...test for the Crimson against the Big Green will be whether or not it can once again stop senior center Shaun Gee. In the teams' first meeting, Harvard limited Gee, then the fifth-leading scorer in the nation, to just seven points...
...believe it's more a function of cultural factors such as diet: Mediterraneans and Japanese tend to favor low-cholesterol diets, low on meats and fried foods and heavy on fish and olive oil. The authors of the study suggest that in high-risk regions the standard blood pressure test included in most checkups be replaced by a "global score" that includes such factors as cholesterol level and the incidence of smoking or diabetes. And a little seaweed on pita once in a while wouldn't hurt either...
...screening tests work by introducing a sound into a baby's ear and then measuring either the response of the ear's internal mechanisms (the otoacoustic emissions test) or the electrical activity of the auditory portion of the brain (the auditory brain-stem response test). Just because a baby fails either test, however, does not mean there is a hearing problem. A temporary buildup of fluid in the ear canal or excessive noise in the nursery can skew the results. For this reason, says Sharon Fujikawa, director of audiology at the University of California at Irvine, hospitals should repeat...