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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...
...wards, the beds are filled by patients with AIDS, TB, malaria, typhoid, cholera, malnutrition and anemia. Some will die. Most will be cured. All will be treated with as much care and attention--if not more--as is afforded wealthy patients at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Farmer has joint appointments. He calls this approach the "preferential option for the poor...
...which added that none of his colleagues at MIT were implicated in the misconduct.MIT has not yet specified which of the papers Van Parijs published during his time at the university contained fabricated data. The New Scientist article identifies two studies published while Van Parijs was conducting research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital, and one published while he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech as questionable.The New Scientist investigation identified “uncanny similarities between supposedly different results presented in at least three highly regarded immunology papers authored by Van Parijs?...
...Accounting Srikant M. Datar has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Kim B. Clark ’74 as the next dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS), according to professors at HBS and other top business schools.Clark’s abrupt departure this summer to lead Brigham Young University-Idaho left the school at a crossroads, as faculty debate the school’s guiding vision for the future.In interviews with The Crimson, HBS professors said Datar was a frontrunner for the deanship, along with six other frequently mentioned candidates, four of whom are currently working...