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— Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of hospitalization for chest pain or a heart attack by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from cardiovascular problems, according to a study presented here by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Medicine.

Most people do not think of kissing as a way of spreading serious sexually transmitted diseases. But kissing between men may be what spreads human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, according to researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Most parents and children dread the time when they sit down and have “the talk.

The arrival of a couple’s first baby is a time of great joy that is frequently followed by a sharp decline in the wife’s marital satisfaction. Social scientists have known this for some time, and that this dissatisfaction can propel couples toward divorce. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ marital researchers studying first-time parents have uncovered a “prescription” for maintaining and even improving marital satisfaction.

Paul Boardman, who has represented Washington state and the nation’s forest-products industry in Japan since the early 1990s, has been named director of the Center for International Trade in Forest Products at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s College of Forest Resources.

Couple the re-release of “The Exorcist” and the up-coming Halloween broadcast of “Possessed,” a TV documentary about a purported exorcism in a mental hospital, and you’ve got a prescription for a sudden jump in the number reported demonic possessions.

Dr. William A. Catterall, professor and chair of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ) medical school’s Department of Pharmacology and Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Medicine, are among the 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine.