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After two years of trying, Harvard has succeeded in wooing University of Iowa Professor of Neonatology Jeffrey C. Murray to the shores of the Charles River...
...Murray will serve as chief of genetics at the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston and as a professor of pediatrics...
...reason. Bush futures fell from 54¢ (giving him a 54% chance of winning) to 10¢. Within six minutes the price was back to 52¢, as traders snapped up bargains. The tumult led to speculation that someone might have been manipulating the market to plant doubts about Bush. But John Murray, a futures trader in New York City and one of Intrade's 43,000 members, says political biases don't sway serious traders. Neither do national polls. Instead, Murray does the math. Using research, he estimates the chance that each candidate will win each state. He tweaks his map daily...
...exactly, says Dr. Elizabeth Murray of the college's department of primary care and population sciences. She and her colleagues reviewed 28 studies involving 4,042 patients, all experiencing an ongoing illness such as asthma, cancer or diabetes. Consulting Web-based health programs and support groups increased these patients' knowledge and feelings of social support. But it didn't lead to behavior changes, and it had a striking--and surprising--negative effect on outcomes...
...reason for this, Murray speculates, is that patients get so steeped in information that they make their own treatment decisions--ignoring their doctor's advice. Another possibility is that they discover that the unfavorable consequences of their behavior may be a long way off and far from a statistical certainty. "They might appreciate that there's a risk in having a stroke," says Murray, "but not take their meds, knowing there's a possibility that they may not have...