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...Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The number of deaths for tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and Hib disease (a major cause of meningitis) had all fallen more than 99% since vaccines were introduced against them. Vaccines have cut the number of deaths from hepatitis A, acute hepatitis B, and chickenpox by more than 80% each. And deaths from invasive pneumococcal disease (a cause of pneumonia, meningitis, and blood infection) have been cut by a quarter. Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide...
...childhood vaccinations given in the U.S. prevent 14 million disease cases and 33,000 deaths. The JAMA authors believe their own death-rate reduction figures may in fact underestimate the true benefits of vaccination. The numbers don't account for chronic disease averted because of a prevented infection: Hepatitis B, for example, is a major risk factor for liver cancer...
...Crimson reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...started the regatta, but we rallied pretty well on Saturday afternoon and Sunday,” Kovacs said. “Third was a decent finish, especially considering this fleet was arguably more competitive than the fleet we see at the national championship.” In B-division, Harvard didn’t fare as well behind the efforts of juniors Jon Garrity and Kerry Anne Bradford and sophomores Drew Robb and Michelle Konstadt. Garrity and Robb shared skipper duties with Bradford and Konstadt at crew. “I was pretty excited about how Jon Garrity rallied himself...
...Jesse Cohen, Cora K. Currier, Bora Fezga, Johnny H. Hu, Benjamin M. Jaffe, Lauren D. Kiel, Kevin C. Leu, Lingbo Li, Nini S. Moorhead, Alexandra Perloff-Giles, Michelle L. Quach, Lindsay P. Tanne, Shan Wang, Heekwon Seo, Chelsea L. Shover, David J. Smolinsky, Vidya B. Viswanathan, Maria Y. Xia, and Esther I. Yi contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...