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...regard him as a freestanding branch of government in this country...
COLLINS: Let me first say as a disclaimer that I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach...
...Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive genome-wide...
Unlike most IHOP’s, the Cambridge branch will not stay open later than 2 a.m. because they failed to obtain the requisite license from the Cambridge License Association last March...
...brain stem works as an alarm, a kind of control and integration center, for determining physiological changes in the body... if the system is defective and you’re lying face down, you will die,” he added. Cathy Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), said the results of the study explain why the NICHD’s campaign to have healthy babies sleep on their back has worked. According to Spong, the program has led to a decrease in the SIDS rate...