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Harvard will lose yet another prominent academic when proteonomics specialist and Medical School Lecturer Joshua LaBaer leaves for Arizona State University this June. Earlier this year, LaBear received an offer from Arizona State University to head the newly-founded Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, where he was promised a sizeable research fund of $10 million and an 8,000 square-foot lab space to work with. LaBaer, the founder and current director of the Institute of Proteomics at Harvard Medical School, is one of a handful of innovators in the relatively new field of proteomics, the study...
Harvard-affiliate Massachusetts General Hospital, considered one of the nation’s premier medical centers, has a death rate more than double the state’s average for the most common procedure used to treat heart attacks, a Harvard study reported earlier this month. The study—commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—found the angioplasty death rate for patients admitted with heart attacks or in a state of shock was 12.6 percent at Mass. General in 2007, far above the state average of 5.5 percent. Angioplasty, a process by which a doctor...
Much has been made of the statement on abortion that Pope Benedict XVI issued earlier this week after meeting with Nancy Pelosi. But the Vatican's choice of words as they related to the Speaker of the House was quite predictable, given her pro-choice stance and her position as a high-ranking Catholic Democrat. The Holy Father simply made clear their differences on the issue and reminded the American politician of her responsibilities as a Catholic to protect life "at all stages of its development...
...Earlier in the day, Canada's Governor-General, Michaëlle Jean, broke with protocol by buttonholing Obama at the airport for a private meeting that lasted 30 minutes. An immigrant from the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, the former journalist and broadcaster is Canada's symbolic head of state, representing Queen Elizabeth...
...European firms don't exactly need Sarkozy's invitation to get to know Iraqi officials. Earlier this year, France's Total and the Anglo-Dutch firm Royal Dutch Shell began talks with Iraqi authorities about developing five new oil fields in the north and south of the country. (U.S. rivals Chevron and ExxonMobil are also after that business.) European chemical, engineering and construction companies and arms producers would also like to re-establish ties that were severed by the international embargo of Iraq before the war. British and Italian firms, meanwhile, long to kick-start contracts they had from...