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...need of senior scholars in political philosophy, and in particular in continental philosophy,” Rosenblum said. Rosen will help strengthen Harvard’s course offerings in 19th century continental thought, an underrepresented area since the departure of continental specialist Seyla Benhabib in 2001. “Those hundred years were crucial for the development of modern thinking,” said Peter A. Hall, director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), where Rosen will be a faculty associate. “Now we have someone who knows the debates and writing of that...
...suggested grouping several conditions under one name - what we now call MND. Then things went quiet for 120 years. "Traditionally, it was a case of doctors saying to patients, in effect: 'You've got motor neurone disease - go home and write your will,'" says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing to offer them." There were cracks of light in the 1990s, when researchers implicated a genetic mutation in a small subset of MND patients, and the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer launched riluzole (Rilutek), the first...
...Good evidence now shows that the areas in the US with the highest rates of use of hospital beds, intensive care units, specialist consultations, and invasive testing don't have the best quality of care and outcomes. In fact, they often have the worst. It would be a great advance in both quality and cost if somehow the American public came to understand that "more care" is not by any means always "better care," and that new technologies and hospital stays can sometime harm more than they help. Patients need to ask more, "Are you sure I need that...
...Faculty published in May 2005, the “wait list in Cambridge and Allston could be between 150 and 300 distinct names/children.”More current and more specific statistics concerning these waiting lists, however, were unable to be provided by the individual child care centers, Work/Family Specialist Sarah Bennett-Astesano at the Office of Work/Life Resources, or Task Force Chair and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds.Martin, whose five-year-old daughter attends daycare in her hometown of Lexington, Mass., says she did not even complete the formal application process for Harvard?...
...called on a friend who was a renowned hand specialist. "I knew the procedure well," he says. "Remove the scar tissue and place a tendon from my own body to stabilize the other hand bones." Naked under his hospital gown, Johnson was rolled into the operating room cracking jokes with his doctor. "I felt bad to be a bother," he says. Together Johnson and his friend decided to go with general anesthesia. An hour later, Johnson woke up and said, laughing, "That was quick...