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...medical treatment for their conditions, if any at all. At the beginning of the study, 75% of black participants with hypertension were not taking medication for their condition; 10 years later, 57% still remained untreated. (The study did not provide a corresponding figure for white hypertension patients, but past research has documented a well-known disparity in treatment...
During a symposium last night in Harvard Hall, four scholars from prominent universities presented research that stretches the limits of traditional economics with modern scientific advances. The two-hour event—entitled “A Symposium on Economic Decision Making”—focused on the nascent field of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economics that challenges classical assumptions of economic theory. “Economics is actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later...
...through the end of 2007, provides the first confirmed tally of city residents living with HIV or AIDS. The 15,120 people affected represent a 22% increase from 2006. As grisly as those numbers are, they most likely don't accurately convey the depths of the problem. Drawing from research indicating that from one-third to one-half of infected people are unaware they harbor the virus, the authors conclude that the number of affected residents is "certainly higher...
...than in times past. “This pushes students to think outside the box,” she said. “E-recruiting is very easy to fall into, but this challenges students not to rest on the comfort of e-recruiting and to do their own research.” Ali seemed to agree. “At Harvard the traditional route is investment banking, which is not where you want to be,” she said, drawing laughter. The singer-actress stressed “blazing a path that is unique,” advising...
...historian Flavius Josephus and that his faulty reporting was passed on as fact throughout the centuries. As Elior explains, the Essenes make no mention of themselves in the 900 scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 in the caves of Qumran, near the Dead Sea. "Sixty years of research have been wasted trying to find the Essenes in the scrolls," Elior tells TIME. "But they didn't exist. This is legend on a legend." (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...