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...Maurizio Bendandi pokes fun at advertising slogans. "Pharmaceutical companies love to say, 'Treating cancer, one patient at a time,'" the 43-year-old observes. "But those companies are mass-producing drugs. We're the ones really doing...
...Through Harvard University Health Services (UHS), each Gardasil shot costs $154—and the full-course vaccination requires three of them. The total cost of the vaccination, $462, is prohibitively high. The University, through UHS, should follow the Massachussetts state government’s lead in fighting cervical cancer and subsidize the vaccination’s costs for women who want it. HPV is a common, sexually-transmitted disease caused by strains of the human papillomavirus group of viruses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that genital strains of HPV will infect over 50 percent of sexually active...
...tragic life obstacles. As Darling’s narrative ultimately conforms to the conventional marriage plot, she assumes a more decorous tone to relate the weightier thematic content of confronting Lescaze’s son’s untimely death and Lescaze’s own terminal bout with cancer that’s more like a New York Times Sunday Styles “Modern Love” column than sex blog-cum-novel. Perhaps the time is ripe for this kind of thing: when even a lowly Senate staffer can get herself fired by blogging about her office...
...committed to write.Still, this one is a success, and it left me pondering some jokes long after I’d put “Ant Farm” aside. Above all, I kept returning to the tale of that IM’ing teenager with cancer and hepatitis C who believes God has “4saken” her. It’s a jarring piece, which pulls off both the funniest and most powerful use of an emoticon in, perhaps, the history of comedy. The girl writes, “i’ve decided 2 stop...
...American Pastoral.”Suddenly ambushed, I heard “Yes, I loved it!” exiting my mouth with the over-enthusiasm of a coked-up Dallas Cowgirl. In reality I had only reached roughly page 20, where the narrator starts recounting his prostate cancer, complete with details involving impotence and adult diapers. References to elderly men’s uncontrollable bladders are a deal-breaker for me.But I know “American Pastoral” is a great book because somehow everyone around me, while still managing to maintain more activities and better grades...