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Risk of Hip Fractures Related to Tranquilizers
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Elderly people can dramatically reduce their risk of fracturing a
hip in a fall by not taking certain kinds of tranquilizers, a
Vanderbilt study reports.
Users of longer-acting tranquilizers-those lasting more than 24
hours-had a 70 percent greater risk of hip fracture than those not
using any tranquilizers, the study found. Those using shorter-acting
tranquilizers had no significantly increased risk, compared with
those not using any such medications. The study was based on a
review of medical records of elderly residents of the Canadian
province of Saskatchewan between 1977 and 1985. ...
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Nobel Laureate Peter Agre to Serve As AAAS President-Elect
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Annual Meeting. Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and head...Dilts Member-at-Large: Robert Tinker Electorate Nominating Committee...on Engineering Chair-Elect: Robert M. Nerem Member-at-Large...
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MAYOR DIAZ NAMED ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST LEADERS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Foundation (Austin, TX); Dr. David Baltimore, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and Former President, California...Cofounders, Knowledge Is Power Program (San Francisco); Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense (Washington...
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Miami Mayor Manny Diaz Named One of America's Best Leaders of 2008
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire
; ...Foundation (Austin, TX); Dr. David Baltimore, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and Former President, California...Cofounders, Knowledge Is Power Program (San Francisco); Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense (Washington...
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Britannica Taps Top Minds for Knowledge Panel.
PR Newswire
; ...Times; Pulitzer Prize winner. Murray Gell-Mann - Robert Andrews Millikan professor of theoretical physics emeritus, California...first editorial board was formed in the 1940s, under Robert Maynard Hutchins, then chancellor of the University...
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Miami Mayor Manny Diaz Named One of America's Best Leaders of 2008.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Defense & Aerospace Week
; ...Foundation (Austin, TX); Dr. David Baltimore, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and Former President, California...Cofounders, Knowledge Is Power Program (San Francisco); Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense (Washington...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...singer, 1915. Deaths: Emily Bronte, novelist, 1848; Joseph Mallord William Turner, painter, 1851; Robert Andrews Millikan, physi-cist, 1953. On this day: Ted Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate, 1984.
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Deaths:
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1813; Benjamin Smith Barton, naturalist, 1815; Emily Bront, novelist, 1848; Joseph Mallord William Turner, painter, 1851; Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff, lawyer and historian, 1925; Robert Andrews Millikan, physicist, 1953.
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Helixis, Inc. Announces Corporate Launch.
Business Wire
; ...products. The company's other founders include Professor David Baltimore, Ph.D., president emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan professor of biology at Caltech, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine; and Professor Axel Scherer...
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Science in the developing world.(FORUM)
Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology
; ...understanding that present stability may not be a guarantee of future stability. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DAVID BALTIMORE Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California I could not agree more strongly...
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Nobel callings // The university's ranks yield 61 winners of the prestigious prize
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Markowitz and William Sharp Robert Andrews Millikan, Physics, 1923 Hermann Joseph...Physiology or Medicine, 1946 Robert S. Mulliken, Chemistry, 1966...Economic Sciences, 1970 J. Robert Schrieffer, Physics, 1972...
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