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Although members of the medical community have struggled in recent years to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding...
...will be offered, the school will have executive education programs, with its first courses on negotiation and family-owned businesses. HBS is also currently in the process of selecting a new dean, following the departure of Kim B. Clark ’74 who left last summer to head Brigham Young University-Idaho. Two of the six prospective deans on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ short-list—Dickinson Professor of Accounting Srikant M. Datar and Chapman Professor of Business Administration Nitin Nohria—are natives of India. Most consider Datar to be the frontrunner...
...McGuire said, and intervention funds are dwindling. “We’re going in the wrong direction in terms of where we’re committing funds,” she said.Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at HMS, gave a presentation on medical and clinical issues in HIV patient care. One of his patients, Joan Bennett, talked about living with HIV-AIDS.“It would have been better to tell someone I was dying...
HERBAL AID FOR WOMEN Taking ginkgo biloba supplements for at least six months may lower the risk of ovarian cancer 60%, report doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. In the lab, ginkgo also stopped some ovarian-cancer cells from growing...
...effective with avian influenza A, is no longer available for private purchases in the United States. Its Swiss maker, Roche Holding AG, said it was temporarily discontinuing shipments amidst concerns about hoarding, the Washington Post reported on Oct. 27. Deborah S. Yokoe, an infectious disease specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that individuals definitely should not stockpile Tamiflu. “There are lots of reasons not to stockpile, including the fact that if you have the drug on hand it’s going...