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...substantial portion of drugs taken orally, in pill or liquid form, is lost to digestive processes and removed by the liver, and what remains can irritate the intestinal tract. Enter transdermal patches. First designed to treat motion sickness, they slowly deliver drugs through the skin from a reservoir within the patch, and are being used increasingly to treat hypertension, angina and other disorders. So far, the patches are limited to carrying small-molecule drugs that can diffuse through the skin. But several teams are experimenting with electrical or ultrasonic devices that can also push larger-molecule drugs through the skin...
...first time in its history, Harvard may have to release confidential internal documents from a tenure case, now that a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled against Harvard's motion to dismiss a civil suit filed by a former assistant professor...
...filing its most recent motion to dismiss the case, the University argued that a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling last September suggested that courts should not interfere with private universities' internal procedures. The court ruled against a student who had claimed that Brandeis University disregarded its student handbook guidelines when it disciplined him for allegedly raping another undergraduate...
...Judge Raymond J. Brassard, who had denied Harvard's first motion to dismiss the case prior to the Brandeis decision, found that Berkowitz's case still had merit. He made the ruling in light of an amended complaint Berkowitz submitted, detailing the ways in which he believes Harvard violated its rules...
Chmura had seemed to be a perpetual-motion machine of good works, turning up in pediatric wards and at charity golf matches. He and his wife Lynda appeared together in a commercial for the United Way. He also threw his weight behind conservative political causes, attracting a sell-out crowd when he spoke at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. But last week a circuit-court judge in Waukesha, Wis., refused to dismiss or delay Chmura's Jan. 23 trial for sexual assault and enticement of a minor. Packer fans have never quite got over the shock of seeing the local...