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Harvard's Kennedy notes that there is no consensus among African-American parents on how to raise a child. "I'm sure there's a difference between the way Jesse Jackson raises his kids, Louis Farrakhan raises his kids and my parents raised me," he says. Ruth-Arlene Howe, a law professor at Boston College, counters that efforts to ensure race-blind adoptions are "a major, major assault on black families...
...Ruth Day, a researcher at Duke University, has been studying drug commercials since the late 1990s. She and her small staff at Duke's Medical Cognition Laboratory record hours of television every day, isolate drug commercials, and systematically measure their "cognitive accessibility." It's the kind of research that also helps Day explain how well, for example, jurors understand instructions given in court. Day (whose research is not funded by either the industry or the FDA) analyzes ads for their linguistic complexity, speed of voiceovers, visual distractions and the timing of when information is given about drug benefits and side...
...first direct-to-consumer advertising for a medical device. Cypher was the first company to advertise percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with drug-eluting coronary stents, but other types of medical devices had been advertised on television previously. Also, a previous version of the article stated that Duke researcher Ruth Day had no financial connection to the Food & Drug Administration. She has worked as a consultant for FDA in the past, but her research is not funded...
...representatives in yesterday’s meeting. “If [patients have] got insurance, you’re not asking if they’re a veteran.” Currently, CHA routinely asks about veteran status only during the intake interviews for outpatient psychiatric services, said Ruth A. Barron, a psychiatrist at CHA. During yesterday’s meeting, Stevens and the CHA representatives agreed to work toward including a question about veteran status during all of the Alliance’s intake interviews, not only for those in psychiatric care. Despite CHA’s financial woes...
...financially from slavery and perpetuated pro-slavery ideology. A number of Yale’s residential colleges, for example, were named after slave owners, most notably Calhoun College, which is named for John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and ardent defender of Southern rights.And that year, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons—the first black president of an Ivy League university—commissioned a panel of students, faculty, and administrators to investigate Brown’s ties to slavery. In 2006, the University issued a Report on Slavery and Justice. According to James T. Campbell, a history...