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...meeting yesterday of two top committees that oversee education at Harvard, faculty, administrators and students agreed that the structure and function of sections needs to be rethought...
...reality is that under the same TF some sections go really well and some don’t and that is a function of the students,” Ellison said...
McGeary, who is HCD’s campus outreach director, will be performing much the same function in his new position, particularly helping to increase the number of the CDM chapters across the state...
Critics of the current system have all sorts of ideas about how hospitals and research labs could go beyond the minimum. One is the notion of subject advocates--independent consultants whose sole function would be to look out for the best interests of the subjects, not the scientists. Argues George Annas: "You cannot rely on the conscience of the individual investigator, because he has an inherent conflict of interest. He has to enroll subjects in his study...
...when they are submitted to the EPA--or when they are leaked to the press. A year and a half ago, newspapers in California reported that researchers there were paying healthy volunteers $1,000 to complete a six-month regimen of perchlorate, a rocket-fuel component that disrupts thyroid function and may cause retardation in babies. Lockheed Martin funded the study after some 800 lawsuits charged that the company leaked perchlorate into the water supply and made people sick...