The connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is by now so well established that inflammatory markers like CRP, while they may prove useful to test and treat, will not take the place of cholesterol any time soon, says Alan Daugherty, PhD, the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

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To test their technology, Rabiner and Hare used it to experimentally treat prostate enlargement, where the prostate grows and compresses the urethra.

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They are strong characters and enjoy engaging each other on that level and treat their relationship, it seems to me, as a test of quick wit.

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This fact of life is used to justify banding, a system in which the test scores are segmented into a few bands, and you are then entitled to treat everyone within a particular band as essentially equal-and to hire randomly within the band.

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Prof Hopkins and colleagues used the drug donepezil, used to treat people with Alzheimer's disease, to test the automated system.

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