Word: medicale
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Concern over the Medical School's ability to regulate its faculty grew last fall when one top administrator resigned after admitting to plagiarism, and an ophthalmology fellow was found to have misrepresented data results.
The proposed $30 million fund, called Medical Science Partners, will give "seed money" to promising but potentially risky Med School research projects. Harvard expects that the program, funded entirely by private sources, will start awarding grants this year.
Until recently, the drugs were considered mainly the bane of competitive sports and body building. But the alarming fact is that steroids, which are synthetic male hormones, are increasingly being abused by teenage boys for cosmetic reasons. A report last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed...
The same cannot be said of intravenous drug abusers, who are generally oblivious to educational campaigns about the risk of sharing needles. "Either the message is not getting to them," says Moss, "or it's not getting to them in a way they can understand." Despite the specter of AIDS...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant...