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Applications to Harvard Medical School for next year's entering class dropped by 7.5 per cent, primarily as a result of rising tuition and room and board costs, Dr. Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions at the Med School, said yesterday...
...pervasiveness of sterilization, surgeons perform hysterectomies and tubal ligations on some ethnic groups more than others. In fact, the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA) and the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse (CARASA), two of the most active reproductive rights groups, estimate that 37 per cent of Puerto Rican women (in Puerto Rico), 25 per cent of Native American women and 20 per cent of married Black women have been sterilized, many by hysterectomy. By comparison, only 7 per cent of white women have been sterilized...
...addition, the group in a 1979 report pinpointed teaching hospitals as widespread violators of Federal sterilization regulations. The report found that in that year 70 per cent of the more than 80 hospitals surveyed violated 1974 sterilization consent regulations even though they had been in effect for five years. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, chairman of the Health Research group, says these hospitals, which primarily service the poor, serve as training grounds for sterilization abuse practices, which then spread elsewhere...
...complying with Federal regulations. The specialist added that the greatest percentage of errors occurred with hysterectomies where, among other things, a consent form and certification that the operation has been completely explained to the patient are required. During the period from July 1980 to March 1981, some 60 per cent of these were improperly handled. "The state has made some effort to clean up, but we won't see any improvement until the quarter beginning with last April," says the specialist...
...Wildcats' schizophrenic shooting performance made the Harvard comeback a little easier to bring off. After hitting more than 70 per cent from the floor in the first half, UNH managed only 35 per cent in the second...