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Student enrollment in the ISP also showed socioeconomic imbalance—only 27 percent of students from low income families elect to participate in the program...
...every time recommendations are changed, or when respected medical organizations endorse conflicting guidelines on issues like screening, say experts, many patients opt out of the controversy altogether, preferring to forgo testing than wade through the confusing information and options presented to them. So, says Dr. George Sledge, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a professor of medicine at Indiana University's Simon Cancer Center, it's worth remembering that "the core issue is that screening mammography reduces breast-cancer mortality. And that is unchanged by this report...
Experts point also to the increasing number of women who elect to induce labor or give birth by cesarean section before 39 weeks. While a baby is technically considered full-term at 37 weeks' gestation, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises women not to deliver before 39 weeks. Many women, however, still choose to give birth between 37 and 39 weeks, for nonmedical reasons ranging from convenience to simply wishing not to be pregnant any longer. "But babies that are meant to stay in should just stay in," says Riley. "More maturity goes on between...
Former President George H. W. Bush once said, “Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn’t know where they’re going.” With Johnny Bowman and Eric Hysen, Harvard students have the opportunity to elect an Undergraduate Council president and vice president who not only possess an unparalleled ability to make the trains (or Quad shuttles) run on time but also present a compelling vision of the UC’s role in student advocacy during a difficult time for the university and its budget. As the presidents...
...home state of New Jersey. Yes, the turnpike is a blight, Jon Bon Jovi can’t sing, there really are mafiosos and too many strip malls, and we aren’t the friendliest people in the world. Before New Jersey went to the polls to elect a governor a couple weeks ago, a whole new smear made its way through political circles: that New Jersey is impossibly corrupt and that the fix is in for the Democrats. As with most conservative voter-fraud scares, this charge had more to do with race-baiting and delegitimizing potentially unfavorable...