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...staying in the country after college difficult for international students. While many of Harvard’s nearly 4,000 international students intend to stay in the United States to work, others, like Ivan Z. Posavec ’10 and Zeina Oweis ’11, echo the study??s findings. “I love the United States, but I miss home, I miss my parents, my brothers,” said Posavec, a native of Serbia. “I cannot see myself spending the rest of my life thousands of miles away from here...
Harvard-affiliate Massachusetts General Hospital, considered one of the nation’s premier medical centers, has a death rate more than double the state’s average for the most common procedure used to treat heart attacks, a Harvard study reported earlier this month. The study??commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—found the angioplasty death rate for patients admitted with heart attacks or in a state of shock was 12.6 percent at Mass. General in 2007, far above the state average of 5.5 percent. Angioplasty, a process by which a doctor...
...immune cell—called a dendritic cell—will search the body for foreign matter, targeting it for destruction by T cells, another component of the immune system. But some tumors manage to escape detection, enabling them to grow uncontrollably, said Nathaniel D. Huebsch, one of the study??s authors. “The idea with a cancer vaccine is to wake up the immune system and let it know there’s a tumor in the body and it should try to destroy it,” Huebsch said. Current therapies involve reprogramming immune...
...HSPH and the primary author of the manuscript. “Leukemia is the most important childhood cancer,” said Liu. “I’m concerned about the children, and what factors are associated with the disease.” According to Christiani, the study??s original focus was not related to diet, but rather attempted to determine whether living in areas with strong pollution from petrochemical industries increases the risk of leukemia. The subjects’ diets were gathered as preliminary information that would later be used to adjust for environmental factors...
...Ph.D. applications have increased by 16 percent at Northwestern, 7 percent at Michigan, 8 percent at Dartmouth, and 12 percent at Johns Hopkins. Overall applications for graduate study??most of which are for Ph.D.s—are up by 15 percent at Duke, 9 percent at Dartmouth, 5 percent at Stanford, 9 percent at Yale, and 9.5 percent at Princeton, according to deans at those universities...