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...move was unexpected because of the program’s long history on campus. Despite having to depend on federal grants for survival, HUNAP expanded beyond its beginnings at the GSE to develop programming for student recruitment and retention for all the University’s schools. Through cultural events, leadership forums and community outreach, the program has enriched the Harvard experience for Native American students. It has sponsored and supported research in the fields of government, economic development, primary and secondary education and health in Native American communities for decades. Four years ago, in recognition of these contributions, Harvard...
...health systems, overrun by patients who--lacking health insurance--wait until they are so sick, they wind up in the emergency room. "Our hospitals are under siege right now," says Marisa Walker, director of the Arizona-Mexico Program at the University of Arizona, who has been studying ways to develop cross-border health care in a state that has as many as 750,000 uninsured. "We definitely need to get some type of a pilot project." Such a project may come relatively soon, as both Health Net and PacifiCare are eyeing Arizona as a logical next step for expanding their...
...scientifically or politically. Investigators at New York University have already located a malaria-resistance gene, but there's no guarantee that new bugs carrying it would have any evolutionary advantage over the old ones. Besides, parasite-host relationships are notoriously protean; as soon as resistance genes appear, the parasites develop counter-resistance. And there's always the possibility that the experiment could backfire, creating swarms of mutant mosquitoes that are even worse than the ones we have...
...these reasons, some argue, the $34 million used for sequencing the genomes, and the millions of dollars more it would cost to develop aresistant bug, might be better spent on sending the tools we already have--pesticides, netting, malaria drugs--into Africa and other parts of the malaria-plagued world where they are in desperately short supply. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...very small percentage of infections can develop into the far more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), characterized by bleeding through bodily orifices and even the pores of the skin. In those who have contracted DHF, the body's tiniest blood vessels start leaking like bad plumbing, leading to a catastrophic drop in blood pressure, followed by shock and very often death. Half of those who get DHF will die without top-class medical attention, says Simon. Fluids must be administered intravenously and precisely to keep vascular pressure at a safe level. It can be tough to tell when dengue...