Objectives To examine the relation between area level social deprivation and ultrasound markers of atherosclerosis (common carotid intima-media thickness and plaque score), and to determine whether any differences can be explained by "classic" ...
Columbia Pictures Images from ads for films such as “Zombieland” can startle or frighten unwary TV viewers. Halloween has always been the season when Hollywood unleashes some of its most suspenseful and supernatural offerings. When I was a child in the ...
Objective To compare quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes. Do not-for-profit nursing homes provide better quality? R Tamara Konetzka BMJ 2009 339: b2683. [Extract] [Full Text] Regulating nursing homes: Caring ...
Background Observational and epidemiologic data indicate that the use of aspirin reduces the risk of colorectal neoplasia; however, the effects of aspirin in the Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer) are not known. Resistant starch has ...
U.S. soldiers from Fox company, 4th squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment perform a patrol on the streets of west Baquba last Sunday. (Agence France-Presse) BAGHDAD — The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost. Limited, ...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost. Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now ...
For a poet whose work as both a doctor and a poet is about striving to make things whole, it is interesting that Rafael Campo's latest collection of poetry has such a divisive title. But without an enemy we would not know war and separation, and ...
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