Tracing People Links

New NICE Guidelines Are Set To Reduce Premature Deaths In People Who Have Inherited High Cholesterol (Medical News Today)

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care have today (27 August 2008) published a guideline on the care and treatment of adults and children/young people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a type of high cholesterol that is caused by an inherited genetic mutation.

Years Later, Lewis Watches History Being Made (Washington Post)

DENVER, Aug. 27 -- When the Democratic Party officially nominated Barack Obama for the presidency Wednesday night, a 68-year-old son of Alabama sharecroppers sat in section 122 of the Pepsi Center, pondering a time when the scene before him was utterly inconceivable.

Thieves make off with 40,000 feet of copper wire (Greeley Tribune)

A four-hour power outage in Eaton early Wednesday has been traced to the theft of 40,000 feet of copper wire from Xcel Energy power lines east of Eaton.

The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy (Columbia Journalism Review)

As excitement mounted for the Democratic convention at the end of last week, The Washington Post published one of those loaded connect the dot stories tracing the Obama campaign’s ties to the University of Chicago Medical Center, one of Chicago’s premier teaching hospitals.

Financing Litigation Generally (Mondaq)

The cost of large scale asset recovery inquiries and associated litigation is a factor which often deters victims of economic crime from pursuing their rights, preferring instead to abandon any hope for recovery.