Genetic double whammy linked to higher heart failure risk
A New England Journal of Medicine study finds that two gene pairs rarely coexisting in whites markedly raise heart failure risk in blacks. Researchers say about 5 percent of US blacks carry both gene sets, contributing to roughly a quarter of annual congestive heart failure cases in Black individuals, while an editorial urges caution on causality.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Stephen B. Liggett
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Liggett
Roger J. Hajjar
Massachusetts General Hospital
Imre Kertesz Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The Swedish Academy awarded Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz the Nobel Prize in literature for portraying the fragile individual against history's barbaric arbitrariness. His 1975 Sorstalansag Fateless is highlighted as central to the award. Kertesz, born in Budapest and a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, is noted for a stark, hedge like prose. The prize, about $1 million, is decided by 18 members of the Swedish Academy in secrecy.
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Imre Kertesz
Auschwitz
Swedish Academy
Academy
Kertesz
Budapest
Buchenwald
Appeals court orders release of Census undercount estimates
A federal appeals court in Portland ruled the Census Bureau must publish adjusted estimates of those missed in the 2000 count. The decision makes state county and neighborhood figures public under open government law, though it does not require using those numbers for reapportionment. Critics say the undercount favored funding and representation, while the bureau may appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Appeals Court
Portland
Ore
Census Bureau
Circuit Court of Appeals
Carolyn Maloney
DNY
Bush Administration
Justice Department
Charles Miller
Supreme Court
Oragon
Susan Castillo
Margaret Carter
James A. Redden
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