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...York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis so that scientists could work on an experimental vaccine. And in perhaps the most infamous case on record, doctors at Georgia's Tuskegee Institute, starting in the 1930s, deliberately withheld treatment from syphilis-infected African-American men for 40 years to monitor the course of the disease...
...revelation of these and other scandals led to the National Research Act of 1974, which required institutional review boards to approve and monitor all federally funded research. The Department of Health and Human Services followed up by creating what is now called the Office for Human Research Protection, whose job was supposed to be to oversee the IRBs. But the nature of medical research has changed dramatically in the past few decades. "Back then, research tended to be a single investigator working at an academic institution conducting a small-scale clinical trial," says Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, director of the Center...
When Pat Metheny took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, he set the stage for an evening of unadorned music. Unassumingly dressed under a tangled mat of hair, Metheny sat on a monitor speaker, hunched over his guitar and eased into a straightforward, honest folk ballad...
...most visible messes are the easiest to deal with. A moist paper towel will freshen up your monitor; a cotton swab can scrape the crud off the rollers in your mouse; a good burst from a can of compressed air will get the dust out of your keyboard. If your computer desktop is as messy as your real one, that's easily corrected too. You just have to be merciless. Dump those obsolete documents. Delete old e-mails without looking back. Trash any program you haven't used since the last millennium...
...fellowship is the first new academic position created at Harvard in 30 years, according to Murray. Fellows are not faculty members but can conduct independent research, apply for their own grants, and monitor post-doctoral students...