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...University’s worries aren’t confined to preserving the educational mission. Harvard is also affiliated with Partners, CareGroup’s rival hospital organization, which represents Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s hospital...
...part of a complex land transaction to allow Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) to build a new $100 million research medical building, Harvard Medical School (HMS) earlier this month sold “at favorable rates” 31 houses it owned in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood to a local tenants association...
FUELING THE PURGE URGE? Fashion magazines seem to get blamed for reinforcing eating-disorder tendencies in teenage girls. Now a study by researchers at Brigham Young University suggests that hyper-thin supermodels are not solely to blame. Teens who took laxatives or diet pills, went on severe diets or forced themselves to throw up, researchers found, were also more likely to be frequent readers of health and fitness magazines. Go figure...
According to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, UHS has no plans now or in the future to distribute RU-486 at the Holyoke Center. As a result, under the current arrangements, women seeking RU-486 must be referred by UHS either to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston or to the Planned Parenthood center in Brighton, the procedure currently followed by students seeking a surgical abortion...
Meanwhile, no one is denying that hormone therapy has some pretty powerful short-term benefits. "Estrogen is still the most effective treatment for hot flashes and perimenopausal symptoms," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Nor is there anything in the latest study to suggest that women should avoid taking hormones for a few years around menopause. However, as a practical matter, women who have a family history of ovarian cancer or have undergone a partial hysterectomy (ovaries still intact) may want to rethink their choices for long-term hormone replacement...