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...Harvard is very grateful to the many alumni and friends who made gifts to the University last year and in the preceding years,” a spokesperson for the Harvard Development Office wrote in an e-mail...
...because he is a well respected heart expert, inventor of the Jarvik heart, and we thought it was appropriate because he is well respected in the area of cardiology and vascular research," Vanessa Aristede, director of corporate communications at Pfizer, told TIME. In defending his decision to become a spokesperson for Lipitor, Jarvik last month said in a statement on his company's website, "I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science. I have the training, experience and medical knowledge to understand the conclusions of the extensive clinical trials...
...pharmaceutical marketing departments have appropriated the language of the empowered autonomous patient in the service of sales," she says. Moreover, while the FDA can request that pharmaceutical companies provide ads for the agency to review before airing, it does not have the authority to enforce this request. An agency spokesperson estimated that only one-third of such ads are actually reviewed by the FDA before airing. A proposal to increase funding for the FDA to conduct more such reviews was rejected last month...
...other embassies, several of which have been attacked in the past week and suggested that some government ministers were inciting Serbs to violence. "We have made known to the Serbian government our concern and displeasure that their police force did not prevent this incident," Dana Perino , spokesperson for President George W. Bush said, while other U.S. officials blasted Belgrade's "completely inadequate" security precautions...
...financial aid goal to $200 million in their ongoing fundraising campaign. Stanford raised $832.4 million in 2007, more than any other university for the second consecutive year, according to The New York Times. Three out of every four Stanford undergraduates currently receive some form of financial aid. A spokesperson for Stanford declined a request for comment. —Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard.edu...