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...patient's physical disease. Previous studies have shown that traumatic events - the loss of a loved one, for instance, or a natural disaster such as an earthquake - can raise a survivor's risk of a heart event. Although the authors have not directly compared these events to the impact of a cancer diagnosis, they believe the aftermath may be similar. "Any acute stress event, including a cancer diagnosis, would have the same effect," says Mucci...
...Gates’ involvement and found that, contrary to the assumption that more money solves more problems, the Gates Foundation’s implementation of efforts to treat HIV/AIDS produced mixed results. Some of these findings call into question whether Gates’ initiatives create even a net-positive impact. The negative effects include an epiphenomenal dearth of qualified clinicians in other parts of Africa like Lesotho or Rwanda, also known as “brain drain,” the weakening of local systems of health due to a shift in focus, and a diversion of attention and personnel...
Lieberman used the dropping of pen on a table as an analogy to illustrate the differences in impact...
Because humans do not have rigid bodies, only a certain percentage of human body mass—called effective mass—can feel the force of an impact...
...academic life at Harvard, President Drew Faust commissioned a Task Force on the Arts late in 2007. Just over a year ago the Task Force produced a detailed itinerary for integrating the arts into the university’s curriculum. Although the Task Force Report has had minimal concrete impact thus far, the administration’s open support for the arts has caused a wave of optimism among the student body...