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...Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia veritable breeding grounds for HIV. At the same time, the people who manage the economics, politics, and sociology behind the spread of HIV lack the scientific experience to understand the medicine that serves as the treatment for HIV and will hopefully produce a cure. It is only when these two worlds have overlapped enough to where they can work as one socio-medical unit that HIV/AIDS will have a chance at being vanquished at the hands of humans.Courses such as Life Sciences 1 are crucial to developing the necessary rapport between the sociological and scientific...
...things,” she says.Sagar V. Mehta ’09 says that discussing applications of the material only improves the course to a degree.“This is what Life Sciences 1a is—there are these kids at Harvard, and we want them to cure AIDS and cancer. So we’re going to give them a course that puts everything in terms of AIDS and cancer—mostly AIDS,” Mehta says. “And that does make it interesting—for short periods.”Mehta...
...this the cure for ovarian cancer? No. As of November, more than 200 study participants had suffered a recurrence of their cancer and died. But the median survival rate was better than five years for the group that received intravenous and intra-abdominal chemotherapy, compared with a little more than four years for the intravenous-only group. That's a big gain when you realize success in cancer studies is usually measured in months, not years...
...WHAT'S THE CURE? One the misconceptions is that people should be super-organized. But that's just not going to happen for most of us. It's a goal that just ends up making you feel guilty and think that you're a bad person. What I say to folks is: You don't have to be super-organized. Just be well-enough organized to reach your goals. The best treatment is to take time to slow down and think and connect with the outside world. And to stop being a total slave to your electronics...
...seizures in some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. But much of the supporting material is anecdotal. French actor Gérard Depardieu says Mozart helped to cure his childhood stutter. Eliad, the painter, received her treatment at an institute founded by a Paris physician named Alfred Tomatis, who pioneered the use of Mozart's music to treat all sorts of childhood disorders as well as adult ailments including depression. Few national authorities officially recognize the treatment...