His doctor cut off his supply and urged Hale to enter a detox program. That didn’t work. Hale, still in agonizing pain and now suffering from intense withdrawal symptoms, returned to his doctor and pleaded to get back on his opioid regime. The doctor refused.

Via email, the primary investigator of COURAGE, Dr William Boden (Boston University, MA), highlighted that investigators found no subset of patients that did better with PCI vs OMT. Not those with multivessel disease and EF<50%, not those with LAD disease, and not those with nuclear studies showing moderate-severe ischemia.[7–9]

espected investigators from Imperial College London have shaken the core of cardiology. The stakes could not be bigger. Millions of people have received stents for stable coronary artery disease (CAD) at a cost of billions of dollars.

Coronary Stents Humbled Yet Again in Stable CAD

Video Shows Halladay Flying Low

Harvey Weinstein’s Army of SpiesThe film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.

“You Can’t Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear ImpeachmentAfter Monday’s indictments, the president blamed Jared Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller.

Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated? We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses.

Why tax cuts will not make America great again

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that the U.S. military has more than 1,000 personnel in the region, an apparent reference to an area that includes Niger as well as Mali and Nigeria.

It’s a Fact: Supreme Court Errors Aren’t Hard to Find A ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import.

The First Government To Secure Land Titles On The Bitcoin Blockchain Expands Project

But these are also all characteristics that make What3Words completely unsuitable as either a global or national address register. So I was dismayed to read that Mongolia have decided to adopt it as their national register. I’m hoping that this isn’t really the case and that story is similar to the apocryphal tales of Honduras’s blockchain based land registry.

The problem is that What3Words is a proprietary, closed system. The algorithm is patented. The data is closed, with the terms and conditions spelling out in great detail all of the things you can’t do with the system

Trump blindsides advisers with promised opioid plan Officials are scrambling to produce an emergency declaration by next week.

The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist Cape Coral was built on total lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. Oh, and it’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

Ten Steps the Federal Government Should Take Now to Reverse the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

Blood and Beauty on a Texas Exotic-Game Ranch

Kids? Just say no You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation

Why Parents Make Flawed Choices About Their Kids' Schooling

It is a development that further proves the words of French philosopher Guy Debord, who wrote that, if pre-capitalism was about ‘being’, and capitalism about ‘having’, in late-capitalism what matters is only ‘appearing’—appearing rich, happy, thoughtful, cool and cosmopolitan. It’s hard to open Instagram without being struck by the accuracy of his diagnosis.

Justice John G. Roberts Jr., arguing that the South had taken great strides that made the protections of the act unnecessary, based his decision in part on a Senate Judiciary Committee analysis that misinterpreted how the Census Bureau reports race and ethnicity data and wrongly suggested that registration gaps between minorities and whites had shrunk significantly, an error that neither he nor his clerks caught.

ProPublica found that the court cited faulty research or introduced their own errors in nearly a third of the 24 cases that relied on such facts.

A Home Depot co-founder who's been one of the most prolific givers to Senate Republicans, Marcus fumed to Bannon for hours about the lack of return on his investment. In the past six months alone, Marcus has funneled $2 million to a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and tens of thousands more to the National Republican Senatorial Committee — only to watch the Senate fail again and again.

Clinicians' ability to diagnose the exact pathologic source of these symptoms is severely limited, making a cure unlikely.