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Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of student affairs at the Med School and director of the Harvard Summer Pre-Matriculation Program said yesterday he expects the Department of Health and Human Services to discontinue a $90,000 grant to the Med School...
Poussaint, however, would not reveal where the Med School was looking for funds, saying he did not want private foundations to think he was pressuring them for assistance...
...Cutting the program is something I would not like to see happen," Alvin Morales, a first-year medical student who participated in the program last summer, said. Morales, who may join the Med School's combined Ph.D. -M.D. program, said he found the program's research experience its most valuable part. He added that the program helped him adjust to the medical school environment...
...Institutes of Health (NIH). There, and at seven other facilities in the Medical area, are housed the animals used by Harvard researchers--everything from dogs and cats to monkeys and pigs, sheep and goats. Last year there was an average daily census of more than 50,000 animals at Med School facilities...
Barger, who as chairman of the Med School's animal committee in 1957 helped write the pound bill, uses dogs for his research on hypertension, which he says afflicts between 30 40 million Americans and can lead to heart failure, renal failure and strokes. He simulates renal-vascular hypertension in dogs by means of a surgically implanted cuff that puts pressure on the renal artery...