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...This potent regimen knocks out tumor cells and causes the familiar side effects of nausea and hair loss. If her original tumor was estrogen-sensitive - meaning growing in response to the hormone - then she is almost certainly taking an estrogen-blocking drug such as Tamoxifen. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Diary of Healing...
Stern is not the only terrorism researcher to feel that institutional review boards unnecessarily limit her. Scott Atran, a Middle East ethnographer at the University of Michigan, recently sent an essay to his colleagues about his struggles with the IRB process...
...would like to thank Michael Weisskopf for his essay on Walter Reed Army Medical Center [March 19]. I recently retired from the Army Medical Corps after 20 years, most of which were spent as a staff cardiologist at Walter Reed. No doubt, the notorious Building 18 has deficiencies, but Walter Reed is an acute-care hospital that has had to reinvent itself into a rehabilitation facility to care for soldiers with wounds that they never would have survived in previous wars. By and large it has done an excellent job. Failing to identify the excellence at this fine institution will...
...Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago set off a storm of controversy last March when they published a paper arguing that the pro-Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has distorted foreign policy through its influence on academia, the media, and think tanks. Their essay also argued that the lobby was a “critical element” in the decision to invade Iraq...
Since the publication of their essay last March, the claims made by Walt and Mearsheimer have divided the academic community...