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Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
...13th Prophet-President. A wavemaking, pepper-tongued right-winger, Benson acquired some notoriety in the 1960s for praising the John Birch Society and calling the civil rights movement Communist influenced. Other Benson targets: the U.N., the Supreme Court and disarmament negotiations with the Soviets. Speaking at the church-run Brigham Young University in 1980, Benson asserted that the Prophet-President speaks authoritatively on civil as well as religious matters, and that his pronouncements supersede the words of the Mormon scriptures and founders. Kimball was reported to have reprimanded Benson after that speech...
...years ago, Harvard dancers had no such rigorous opportunities. For an experience like CDT’s today, dancers would have to turn to schools like Towson, Brigham Young, or the University of Louisville—schools that provide major funding and institutional support to competitive dance teams...
...researchers, including first author Susan S. Huang, an instructor at HMS in Infectious Diseases and an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, designed a regression model showing that the likelihood of carrying pneumococcus may be predicted with better success at the community level than at the individual level...
...haven't yet been studied as thoroughly, but there's no reason to think they wouldn't get the same benefit from high doses of folate. Dr. John Forman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the principal investigator, isn't ready to say that everybody should take 1,000 micrograms of folate a day. He wants to see his findings confirmed in a large, randomized trial in which half the subjects take the supplement and half take a placebo. Other scientists caution that early studies suggesting that large doses of vitamin E protect against heart disease haven...