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...please don’t summarize your day, don’t leave long pauses of empty silences, and do not, under any circumstances, then apologize for your lack of brevity with drawn out umms and ahhs. It’s uncomfortable listening to voicemail, considering a cancer-breeding mound of metal is peeled to my ear, so don’t elongate my misery...
DIED. FERNANDO BUJONES, 50, the greatest U.S.-born ballet dancer of his generation; of skin cancer; in Miami. In 1974 the 19-year-old son of Cuban immigrants became the first American male to win a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition. But Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union quickly overshadowed Bujones' feat--and the pair's later clashes at the American Ballet Theatre led Baryshnikov, who became the group's artistic director, to fire Bujones in 1985. A sought-after guest artist, he danced with 60 companies in 33 countries, partnering with Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova...
Harvard researchers have found new ways of assembling nanowires—ultra-thin wires that have the potential to revolutionize electronics—and a new application of the technology that may make over-the-counter cancer tests available in drugstores in the near future. Ritesh Agarwal, a former Harvard postdoctoral associate, published a paper this week in Optics Express on a new technique for assembling and arranging nanowires, which are smaller than any circuitry currently available, even on microchips. The ability to construct specific, three-dimensional, nano-scale devices at the whim of a researcher has until this week...
HORMONE THERAPY Estrogen (with progestin) in low doses can relieve hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia, but long-term use is discouraged. Hormones increase the risk of breast cancer, blood clots and heart disease...
...Hospital and associate professor of medicine at HMS, gave a presentation on medical and clinical issues in HIV patient care. One of his patients, Joan Bennett, talked about living with HIV-AIDS.“It would have been better to tell someone I was dying of cancer than living with AIDS,” she said, explaining why she initially resisted HIV testing.Jennifer Y. Chen, Treasurer of HMSAAI and member of the forum planning committee, said one of the goals of the forum was to teach students about social and political issues that are not always covered in medical...