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Wisconsin authorities filed a rare criminal case against a medical laboratory. Prosecutors charged Chem-Bio Corp. with reckless homicide, accusing the firm of lapses that allegedly led it to misread the Pap smears of two women who subsequently died of cervical cancer. The lab, which faces a maximum $20,000 fine, said it would fight the charges...
...difficult to do labs without coveringthem first in class. Chem 17 students had to learnthe reactions in lab as opposed to class," saidSue Y. Kim '96, co-president of the Association ofHarvard-Radcliffe Chemistry students and ateaching fellow for Chemistry 17 last semester...
Milwaukee's Chem-Bio Corp. was charged with reckless homicide for allegedly missing what experts called unmistakable signs of cancer on the Pap smears of two women. Dolores Geary and Karin Smith died of cervical cancer in 1993, years after the Pap smears were allegedly misread. Filing criminal charges in a negligence case is extremely rare. The families of both victims had already won multimillion-dollar settlements from the lab and the women's HMO, Family Health Plan...
...before spring break and you've turned in your last blue book. You throw your Chem 17 textbook into the corner, pick up your bags and hit the door. Two and a half hours later you've landed on some sundrenched airstrip where tropical island breezes blow all thoughts of midterms from your mind...
...Chem Design employs 275 people in Fitchburg...