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Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston announced at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium today that high-dose chemotherapy (followed by a stem-cell transplant to rebuild the immune system) after surgery does not extend the life of breast-cancer patients. The new findings, which come after a thorough analysis of 15 trials involving 6,200 patients, should close the book on a controversial treatment that was popular during the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, doctors believed that more was better when it came to chemotherapy following cancer surgery: While it was painful...
...this election already." Montri reckons "maybe 50%" of candidates are buying votes in the region, often using hard-to-track methods. A candidate might pay for a funeral or another important local ceremony, clear a gambler's debt to an underground bookie, or buy credit for a teenager's cell phone. One PPP canvasser claimed his rivals were handing out Viagra to elderly voters...
...political push to put a higher price on fossil fuels through emissions caps or a carbon tax will make renewables a neccesity. "It's either a very important hedge against the future, or it could become the future," says Peter Bance, CEO of Ceres Power, a London-based fuel-cell company...
...three Quad Houses, the School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Education to the other side of the Charles River. The report was submitted in conjunction with more detailed plans for the 589,000-square-foot science complex, which is slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and an art center which would showcase the University’s contemporary and modern art collection.But after a series of contentious meetings between Harvard officials and Allston residents, the University decided to focus on the science complex and put the art center on the back burner.Harvard will submit...
...faith of this man earned him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in November. His son was at the White House to accept it on his behalf. Dr. Biscet unfortunately couldn’t be there; he spent another day as a Cuban prisoner of conscience, locked in a wretched cell. Before accepting his father’s award, Yan Valdes Morejon emphasized in a Boston Globe editorial that his father’s suffering has not diminished. Biscet has lost nearly 40 pounds and most of his teeth. Castro refuses to release Biscet, despite appeals from the United Nations...