Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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others smeared with political ointment...
...Medical School officials reveal that at least one case history from a Harvard-affiliated hospital was used to promote former opthamalogy fellow Tseng's eye ointment...
According to the Bible, a good name is worth more than a precious ointment -- and choosing one can be just as sticky. Since December, when Jesse Jackson proposed that the group now called blacks (formerly known as Negroes, and prior to that as colored people) should adopt the designation African American, the idea has been catching on. In a recent poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 61% preferred to be called black, vs. 26% who supported African American. (Though the survey was too small to be statistically valid, it indicated that the name change has made some headway...
Frazier's resignation comes one month after The Boston Globe reported that a former Harvard ophthalmology fellow--Scheffer C.G. Tseng--had misrepresented results when testing an eye ointment. The cases are unrelated...
Tseng allegedly gave nearly 300 patients an eye ointment not approved for human use while he and Kenyon helped to organize a company to manufacture and market the drug. Tseng is being investigated for alleged stock manipulation as well as research fraud...