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...cured. "The cord blood cells are now fully operational, making all healthy blood cells in Keone," he says. Equally important, there was no sign of sickle cells and no need for more transfusions. That, of course, was a coup for the doctors, who believe their widely watched experiment could benefit other severely ill sickle-cell kids who can't find matching donors for conventional transplants. Indeed, Yeager believes using umbilical cells could increase the number of successful transplants...
...years and annually after age 50. However, a study released last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association brings into question the use of mammography in women after age 69. Researchers studied 10,000 women to try to determine whether annual mammograms provided enough benefit to warrant their use. The results showed, rather dramatically, that the gains in life expectancy for these elderly women were minimal. With some variation depending on the sample, only 1 death per 10,000 women is likely to be avoided...
Another obvious benefit of the move would be vastly increased space for student groups--three long floors of plush offices worth of it. Small organizations like the Harvard Anim Society could take over the desks of staff assistants, medium-sized organizations like Demon Magazine the offices of mid-level coordinators and large organizations like Harvard Model Congress the space now squandered on deans. "The ballooning in the number of groups in recent years has left three out of four without office space," The Crimson reported last spring. "Others are in spaces drastically inadequate for their needs." Shift the administration...
...also been suggested that the program be maintained in its current form but simply allow males to apply. Those men interested in panels on motherhood could, the argument goes, benefit from the program as much as women could. But allowing men into the program would immediately alter the dynamic. The Science Alliance is an alliance of those facing similar discrimination. While clearly the male participants would not be perpetrators of such discrimination, they do not suffer from it directly. Women, especially women in a highly competitive environment such as Harvard's, often feel that voicing concerns about discrimination and inequity...
...incentive to take the job despite its clear endpoint, Express employees are given a significant discount on store merchandise. It's always an attractive benefit, but even more so with the prospect of Christmas shopping looming...