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...highest court in Massachusetts handed a Harvard medical student victory late Tuesday in her battle for extra break time to pump breast milk during a medial certification exam. The state Supreme Judicial Court’s decision came the night before Sophie C. Currier, an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, began taking the test and ensured she would receive one hour of additional break time per day on top of the 45 minutes students typically have for the entire exam. Currier cannot graduate from the Medical School or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour...
...Massachusetts Appeals Court Friday cleared the way for a Harvard medical student to receive extra break time to pump breast milk when she takes an exam to certify her as a physician...
...judge who awarded Currier the break time two weeks ago, rejected the board’s argument, citing the potential for pain or medical injury if Currier were not given the extra time. Failure to express milk every two to three hours can lead to medical complications, such as breast engorgement, fever, or infection...
...pink for the event--was the solemn coda to the meeting. But months before the Komen event was held, we had mobilized our own global resources to cover this growing health problem. Time's Hong Kong-based correspondent Kathleen Kingsbury, who wrote our cover story, surveyed the state of breast cancer in Japan, China and the rest of Asia. Science editor Jeffrey Kluger reported from Budapest and oversaw the package, and 18 Time reporters in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East filed dispatches to Kingsbury...
...truly vital that we share what we know about how to detect and treat the disease, especially in the Third World, where resources may be woefully lacking. There are 3.5 million women in the Indian city of Pune, and there is one comprehensive breast-care facility there. In South Africa only 5% of breast cancers are caught in their earliest stage. In the U.S. it's 50%. In Kenya, a woman with the disease may have no hope at all unless she can travel elsewhere for treatment. "You just sit and wait for your death," Mary Onyango, a Kenyan breast...