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...pregnancy is a young woman's worst nightmare. Whatever your political leaning might be, there are few who will argue with that. Of course it’s important to be careful, but the reality is that mistakes and accidents happen. Harvard women are lucky to have a health clinic that realizes this and is available to write prescriptions for emergency contraception seven days a week. But the majority of women do not have that luxury...
...things that can happen to a young woman. Whatever your political leaning might be, there are few who will argue with that. Of course it’s important to be careful, but the reality is that mistakes and accidents happen. Harvard women are lucky to have a health clinic that realizes this and is available to write prescriptions for emergency contraception seven days a week. But the majority of women do not have that luxury...
...This is the first [clinic] that we’ve done at Harvard,” explained Andy Crane, who cultivated the relationship between the Eastern Massachussetts Committee of USA Tennis New England and the Harvard team. “We were trying to do something different, and we talked to Coach Fish about it, and he thought it would be a great idea to do one here after a match with the players on the team.”The event also drew a handful of children from Tenacity, a Boston-based youth tennis group with which Crane...
JOIN A GYM. Exercising regularly is always a sound investment. According to a study of 7,000 men that was coauthored by Dr. Tedd Mitchell of the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, fit individuals spend half as many nights in the hospital as unfit individuals do. And with the cost of an overnight stay now in excess of $1,100 (according to the Healthcare Financing Administration), those visits add up. --With reporting by Carolyn Bigda
...least that is one of the conclusions of a study published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. When doctors at a family-medicine clinic in Calgary, Alta., depended on clinical observation to determine whether or not a patient with a sore throat needed antibiotics, they guessed wrong 40% of the time--making the kind of error that only furthers the spread of drug-resistant diseases. Doctors got the best results if they relied on a microbiologic lab test--either a two-day throat culture or the somewhat less accurate 20-min. rapid test...