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...regional disparity in cohort research is enormous. Taking into account population, cohort studies of Africans have produced a tiny fraction of medical research articles compared to wealthier areas. For every one article on high blood pressure published on Africans, 9 are published on Europeans, and 50 are published on people from the US. Disparity in the actual numbers of adults enrolled in cohorts is even worse. Taking into account population, we estimate that for every African enrolled in a cohort study, there are 190 Europeans and 1,000 Americans enrolled in cohorts. We do not doubt that smoking, obesity, high...
Michelle D. Holmes, MD, DrPH is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Shona Dalal, PhD is a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...city of Boston.” The Cooperation Agreement required the University to provide $25 million worth of community benefits to Allston in order to proceed with construction. The Agreement was approved through an expedited process after the University argued that the Science Complex was needed to support groundbreaking research, including stem cell science. According to the University’s statement, Harvard is expected to provide the City with additional payments for housing initiatives as well. In early April, Harvard and the Boston Redevelopment Authority launched the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, which will provide $500,000 in grants over...
...greatest success is the student who pursues his or her own research. The student who does not turn trained precision of thought into a weapon against received wisdom might get an A for the elementary school lesson of sitting still. The student who learns the quickest route to a legitimizing degree and a six-figure salary gets an A for the lessons of vocational school. But the student who uses scholarship and words to resist the authoritarianism and the injustice of senescent power gets an A for the lessons of Harvard College. In the history of Harvard, many students...
...China reported economic data that buoyed equity markets on both sides of the Pacific. In China, the monthly purchasing manager's index for manufacturing was stronger than expected, showing "for the first time that policy is really gaining traction [in China]," says Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at CLSA Asia Pacific Markets in Hong Kong. At the same time, in the U.S., data showed that personal income in April rose 0.5%, an encouraging number. On a day when General Motors, once the world's largest industrial corporation, declared bankruptcy, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 2.6%. (See 25 people...