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Doctors may soon be able to better predict whether breast cancer patients will respond well to chemotherapy, the results of a recent study conducted in part by Harvard Medical School affiliates at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest. The study, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, “add[s] to a growing body of evidence that breast cancer is not one homogeneous disease, but rather a disease with many subtypes and requires a variety of new treatment approaches,” lead author Eric P. Winer, who is associate professor...
...have had others pray for them, according to a 2004 survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Terri Cisse, a graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, questioned the validity of the study. “I’ve seen firsthand from working at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute how people are consoled by prayer. Prayer is so transcendent and metaphysical that it can’t be measured scientifically,” she said. “There are different rubrics for evaluating science and religion.” Critics of the study, including Dr. Mitchell...
Actually, not all of Batali's cookware looks great--his new plastic cutting boards feel as flimsy as Frisbees--but all of it looks different. That's because Batali's design team includes Sam and John Farber, the legendary father-son duo that founded OXO International, which makes those chunky, black Good Grips products that are some of the best-selling kitchen tools in history...
...Farbers come from cookware royalty--Sam's uncle S.W. Farber launched Farberware with a percolator in 1930--and their collaboration with Batali is unusual. Typically, a celebrity chef's logo will be stamped onto a conventional-looking cooking vessel, and it will stay on the market only a couple of seasons. (Emerilware is a notable exception.) By contrast, Sam Farber, 81, sees Batali's line becoming a stand-alone design company. Like the Good Grips line, which appeared in 1990, the Batali products--with their autumnal colors, arm-breaking size and flattened wooden handles (a simple innovation that lends comfort...
...will also be the third female president in the organization’s history. She will lead the undergraduate Steering Committee, chosen last night, which will also include Vice President of Community Building Talya J. Brettler ’08, Vice President of Community Relations Erica L. Farber ’07, Vice President of Education Philip A. Ernst ’06-’07, Vice President of Communications Hillary W. Steinbrook ’08, and Vice President of Shabbat and Holidays Joshua C. Wertheimer ’08. Speeches and elections were held at Hillel during...