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Prostate cancer, which affects one in six men, is one of the leading causes of death for men in America, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. If detected early, the cancer is curable, but in its advanced stage...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study Links Gene with Aggressive Prostate Cancer | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...internationally acclaimed journalist with nine Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow award, and six honorary degrees under her belt, Amanpour will speak to the Class of 2010 at Tercentenary Theatre on May 26—the afternoon before the students receive their diplomas at Commencement...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christiane Amanpour Chosen as Class Day Speaker | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...Four of our six players are playing out of position,” Baise said. “They haven’t practiced or trained to play there. It’s essentially starting from scratch...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Win Eludes Harvard Again | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...will probably need limbs amputated down the line because of wound infections. Outside the Medishare tent ward, Florida orthopedic surgeon Dr. Albert Volk watches a teenage girl limp by on crutches and shakes his head. "An open tibia fracture, with the bone exposed," he says. "Chances are in six months she'll lose the leg below the knee." (See children's messages of hope to Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: What to Do with a Nation of Amputees | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...that still die each year of tuberculosis, malaria, dengue fever and other treatable illnesses. As for myself, I wondered how something as treatable as vernal conjunctivitis, which generally afflicts allergy sufferers, could lead to blindness. I had to go back to the U.S. to find out what at least six doctors here couldn't decipher; a doctor in Michigan diagnosed my problem in five minutes. "You have a case of vernal conjunctivitis," the cornea specialist told me. "If your doctors over there had looked under your eyelid they would have caught it, or at least they should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Indonesia's Health Care System Let Me Down | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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