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...whopping 61% in China. But the tobacco industry abhors a vacuum, and in recent years, industry players - principally London-based British American Tobacco, Switzerland-based Philip Morris International and the U.K.'s Imperial Tobacco - have been working hard to fill it. "We've done this before," says Allan Brandt, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of The Cigarette Century. "When something gets regulated here, we move the risk offshore." Says Michael Eriksen, a former policy adviser for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "Africa is in play." (See how many people smoke...
...data shows that primary care, effective primary care, is central to an effective health care system. Where primary care is strong, the data shows that costs are lower, outcomes are better, and there's less disparity of care," said Allan H. Goroll, a professor at MGH and a general internist at Mass. General Hospital, where he initiated the nation's first residency track in primary care internal medicine. He also said that while the financing of health care reform may be controversial, the need to strengthen and reform primary care is well-recognized and enjoys bipartisan support...
...particular national spotlight over the last year as Grassley charged several prominent researchers at Stanford and Emory, among other instituitons, with failing to disclose millions in compensation from drug companies. The heightened attention prompted many medical schools nationwide to take a closer look at existing conflict of interest policies. Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescription Project, which co-created the Scorecard, credits both increased awareness and strong leadership at the schools with improving PharmFree scores this year. Of the 149 schools evaluated, 45 received A's or B's—which Coukell said reflected "good, serious policies...
...vague responses and deflections may reflect a lack of any current plan. “I don’t think there’s some big proposal sitting in the wings that is the secret strategy for solving our budget shortfalls,” says Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...have met with Dean Michael D. Smith of FAS, Dean Allan M. Brandt of GSAS, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds of Harvard College. None of them bargained for this crisis when they came on board. Neither did President Drew G. Faust. “Harvard is not invulnerable to the seismic financial shocks in the larger world,” she told us in a letter this fall. “Our own economic landscape has been significantly altered.” We would all need to navigate between these seemingly incompatible goals: the need “to advance...