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...Cambodia from the refugee camps. From the start, their target was TB. The disease takes an estimated 2 million lives a year globally, and Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world, 508 cases per 100,000 people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi-drug-resistant TB that is far more difficult and expensive to cure. So serious were fears about the spread of resistant TB that when Sok first began working...
...similar characteristics, thus avoiding the moral pitfalls of past embryonic stem cell research.Scientists within the Harvard community said that while the research is interesting, it points to a trend of focusing on finding ways to avoid moral issues in stem cell research, rather than researching clinical applications to help cure disease.Kevin C. Eggan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, said that although the research done by MIT scientists is a “technical masterpiece,” it still does not address the moral question surrounding embryonic stem cell research...
...There are, however, areas where the narrative excels. He recounts an entertaining history of early attempts at xenotransplantation, most notably the exploits of traveling doctor John R. Brinkley, a snake-oil pusher of the 1920s. Brinkley’s scam was convincing hundreds of American men that they could cure impotence (and restore their all-around vitality) through implanting goat testicles alongside their own gonads...
...usually takes more than a touch of magic to cure an illness, but a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study has found that wand-waving may actually help stroke patients recover. The study of 10 stroke patients, conducted by HMS neurologist Dr. Felipe Fregni and co-authors at the medical school, found that placing magnetic wands over the heads of stroke patients can help them to regain lost motor skills. The non-invasive therapy, called transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS), uses a figure eight-shaped coil to deliver weak, pulsating electrical currents to specific areas of the brain. When the therapy...
...decentralized student center idea use the same evidence to validate their arguments. According to Kidd, the current pockets of renovation will “allow students to reclaim life in the houses.” She doesn’t see one large student center as a cure-all for House problems, and her partner in crime agrees.“I think House life has something that a student center doesn’t have,” says McLoughlin.But it isn’t a replacement for one, either. “Students rate house life highly...