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Grove has been agitating about health care since the mid-'90s, when his battle with prostate cancer--which he waged scientifically, as though trying to solve a heat-dispersion problem on a chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution...
...school students in its first meeting on Wednesday. They will listen to experts who have testified in related cases and split into three groups to make recommendations in the final report for debates on climate change, evolution and intelligent design, and the causal relationship between tobacco and cancer. The report will be accessible to the public via the Internet...
...coming of winter doesn’t mean the end of tanning season—at least, not if you’re a mouse. The Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has provided red-haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children?...
...from the inside gives me the ability to do projects closer to the site than if I had come in with an idea without talking to them.” Schuleit’s most recent installations includes a flower-filled greenhouse. “When you have cancer or give birth, people bring flowers. People in psychiatric wards never got any flowers,” Schuleit said. “In the Bloom project, I added up all the flowers that had never been given...for 91 years and I installed 28,000 flowers...
Harvard University Health Services (UHS) will offer female students vaccinations to protect against cervical cancer and genital warts. The vaccines will be available starting October 1. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Gardasil vaccine, manufactured by Merck, this June. The vaccine protects against various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) which an FDA press release called “the most common sexually-transmitted infection in the United States,” affecting half of all sexually active Americans. The FDA claimed that the vaccine is 100% effective against the two strains of HPV which cause...