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...medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...
DAPA is comprised of 30 student peer advisors who all graduated from an intense training program of 11 sessions. Besides being peer educators, DAPAs can also dish out the dollars for safe partying. However, their range of funding is not just limited to your typical Wednesday night Monopoly marathon. In fact, DAPA will provide grants to alcoholic and non-alcoholic parties alike, though it will not finance the purrchase of any alcohol. Their purpose is two-fold. On the one hand DAPA wants to ensure that ragers don’t go awry because...
...It’s nice that the facts on the bottles and the other things we distribute generate discussion on campus about what people actually do,” says Gober. “It helps to combat the peer pressure, the idea that ‘everybody’s getting ridiculously wasted on weekends so I should...
...don’t think I’ve had a direct, active role,” Korn says. “[The faculty] have to write the grants and go through a stringent peer review, but I think Harvard has done extremely well in the number of grants received...
Harvard’s peer research institutions also took their share of the federal funds, with Johns Hopkins University receiving $160.3 million, Yale taking home $121 million, and Stanford netting $119 million...