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...malaria, which has for so long had its way with us, may at last have met its pharmaceutical match. Two breakthrough papers published early Monday morning in the New England Journal of Medicine report the success of a pair of new vaccines tested in groups of children in Africa. That could open the door to sweeping trials of the vaccines in seven African nations by early 2009 and a completed formulation ready for approval by 2011. "We are," says Dr. Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, "one step closer to the day when malaria will join diseases...
Harvard sold $1.5 billion in debt last Friday and plans to offer at least $600 million more in an effort to raise available cash following its endowment’s largest decline in recent history, the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend...
According to the Journal, the University’s new 30-year debt will command interest payments of 3.375 percent above U.S. government treasuries—a widely used benchmark for risk-free investments. That figure is approximately twice the premium Harvard paid on 30-year debt sold two years...
...mockable emblem of Eisenhower-era family values, a stand-in for geekiness, a pasttime so decidely unhip that it's hip," former Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis once wrote about the best-selling board game Scrabble, which turned 60 on Tuesday. Fatsis would know: while researching Word Freak, his bestselling 2001 book about the game's most fanatical players, he became a self-proclaimed word freak himself, and he's not alone. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation...
...findings, published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Health Services, show that 17 percent of organ donors did not have health insurance in 2003, while only 0.8 percent of organ recipients were uninsured...