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Business interests, of course, play a role. Once the general-election choices are locked in, trial lawyers will have fallen in love with a Democrat, just as oilmen will find true romance with a Republican. But at this early stage, the contest for the support of influential fund raisers and large donors is also a personal one, with allegiances, grudges and gut feelings determining the fate of millions of dollars and eventually shaping the nomination field...
...idea of NNT is simple enough. Most clinical trials look at how much better people do on a particular medicine compared with how they would do without it or whether they should be on a different medicine. Take statins, drugs that aim to reduce bad cholesterol. A typical trial might give one group of men a statin for, say, five years and give a second group a placebo, or fake pill...
Generally, you will see fewer heart attacks in the statin group (about 30% fewer in one real-world trial). Reducing the risk by a third sounds like a lot, which is one reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group...
Franken said yesterday that he would challenge Republican Sen. Norman B. Coleman (R-Minn.) next year, confirming longtime rumors that he would mount a bid for the Senate. Before taking on Coleman, Franken will face off against wealthy trial lawyer Michael V. Ciresi in the Democratic primary...
...lawyers who represented blind activist Chen Guangcheng in his trial last year on what would under other circumstances be considered the bizarre charges of damaging property and attempting to organize a crowd to obstruct traffic. In fact, Chen's crime seems to have been that he embarrassed local officials in his home province of Shandong...