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...Several large population studies into anesthetics are now under way among both young children and elderly patients. Wilder anticipates that "we are about five years away from getting to the bottom of this." If anesthetics do prove to be neurotoxic, it could be a regulatory and ethical nightmare to decide how best to continue using them. For Xie's part, he thinks researchers must come up with alternative drugs for vulnerable patients if such a scenario unfolds. "Science doesn't always tell us what we want to hear. If certain drugs are dangerous to use, then we should...
These economic concerns have been exacerbated by natural disasters, including the category five Hurricane Mitch that devastated the Caribbean Sea in 1998. The United States Geological Survey said the hurricane caused upwards of $3 billion in damages and over 7,000 casualties, destroyed large portions of the nation’s transportation infrastructure, and wiped out 70 percent of the nation’s crops...
Sprawled on a couch, bloodshot eyes fixed on the screen, five hours into the third season: this is not the scene commonly associated with social responsibility. Yet this past Thursday, stars of the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire,” together with eminent Harvard professors, proposed that the poignant images of socio-political ills television can invoke are often the most powerful tools that can sensitize viewers. An event organized by the Department of African and African American Studies, the Boston Foundation, and the Ella J. Baker House, “The Wire at Harvard: Lessons...
...Whether I run or not is a decision for me that is a long way away. A lot of people make that assumption that everything I'm doing is moving toward that. The truth is, I'm having a great time doing what I'm doing on [ABC] Radio five days a week, on television on the weekends with Fox News, with my writing and speaking. I'm enjoying the fact that I'm not getting hammered every day by political opponents. It's kind of nice, actually. (See 10 Questions for Mike Huckabee...
...much with the Democrats as she does with the Republicans. I'm more disappointed - not angry, but disappointed - that President Obama has not lived up to almost any of his promises. Bipartisanship, that has not happened. Transparency, that's not happened. Putting bills out for the public to read five days before he would sign them, that has not happened. Focusing on preventive care rather than just trying to push a bill, that hasn't happened...