24 January 2012
Americans get about 300,000 hip replacement surgeries every year. There are several options for the materials used in the prostheses, including metal-on-polyethylene, metal-on-metal, and ceramic-on-ceramic. Which is the best?
A recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study set out to discover the answer. After analyzing data from 18 comparative studies, researchers found no clear advantage of...
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24 January 2012
Computers, social networking, smartphones—these technological wonders have changed the way Americans live and interact with each other. Suddenly, a friend who lives a continent away is as close as the nearest screen. How we work, shop, read, bank, and spend our leisure time has been forever changed by technology.
For those who embrace the new chip-driven...
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03 February 2012
Soda jerk
This term comes from the early days of soda, before bottles, cans, and one-touch soda fountains. Indeed, years ago, you didn’t have soda in the home. If you wanted a Coke or a Pepsi, you went to the drugstore or an ice cream shop and placed your order with the soda jerk—an...
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24 January 2012
By the time they decided to move to Brooksby, Fedela and Bob Vincent had done years of due diligence: their extensive research, an elaborate matrix of variables, and visits to numerous retirement communities factored into their confident decision.
The Vincents were planning to move a year or two later to the Erickson Living community in Peabody,...
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