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Since the most severely injured troops were the most likely to receive morphine - and since this same group would be at a higher risk for developing PTSD - the finding is particularly striking. "It's incredibly exciting," says Dr. Glenn Saxe, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who has conducted similar research in pediatric burn victims. "You could potentially be able to [reduce] the likelihood of getting a bad disorder like PTSD...
Doctors are often afraid to dispense high doses, sometimes at the expense of patients' daily functioning. "Those are the kinds of doses that get doctors arrested," says Siobhan Reynolds, founder of patient-advocacy group the Pain Relief Network. But as researchers figure out the best way to use their most powerful pain relievers, patients are beginning to benefit, Reynolds says. "More people are getting a very little bit of opioids, and that's good," she says. "But those who need high doses are still being put through hell. These drugs are a miracle for the right people: they...
This philosophy can ironically help explain the woes of a religious group that is not quite in such a festive mood right now. Last week, to kick off this year’s Lenten speaker series, Professor Lisa Cahill, a professor of theology at Boston College, lectured on the “Generation Gap in Catholic Sexual Teaching.” Cahill argued that many Catholic students tend to embrace a lifestyle of promiscuity because they feel alienated by traditional Catholic views on sexuality. This happens, she asserted, because although the Church’s viewpoint has progressed beyond...
...commended Israel’s economic sanctions on Gaza for having had the effect of breaking “Gaza’s runaway population growth” and undermining the Hamas regime. “Had Kramer’s statements been waged against any other group, they would have immediately been classified as extremist hate speech,” said Abdelnasser Rashid ’11-12, who serves as the president of the Harvard Islamic Society and as a PSC board member...
About twice a semester, Faust devotes an allotted period of time to meeting with students in her office. The chance to meet with the University’s chief administrator attracted an eclectic group to Mass. Hall yesterday, ranging from anti-slavery activists to a group concerned with investments in Iran...