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Furthermore, Harvard can take steps to promote the research of drugs for the developing world. The current research system is woefully unprepared to address the needs of the developing world. Tens of millions of individuals suffer from “neglected disease” for which there is insufficient market potential to attract private sector response. For example, the most widely used drug for sleeping sickness, Melarsoprol, was developed over 50 years ago. Arsenic-based, it is extremely painful to administer and is so toxic that it kills five percent of those who take it. Given Harvard?...

Author: By Matthew F. Basilico, Connie E. Chen, and Jonathan E. Soverow | Title: Harvard Medicine for the Poor? | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...Humor. Thankfully I have a brain that can feed things back to me as funny. When things have happened to me, they are not funny in the beginning. That's when I suffer. But you have to have a sense of humor. And you have to take responsibility for everything and learn to ask for help, which I never knew before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carrie Fisher | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...only are Arab women largely excluded from political participation - the report notes that most of the handful of Arab women cabinet ministers tend to hold symbolic rather than influential positions - they often suffer domestic violence, including so-called "honor killings," behind a societal cloak of silence. Laws often restrict women's personal liberties, for example by giving them lesser status than their husbands in divorce proceedings, and requiring the permission of a husband or father to work, travel or borrow from a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Holding Back Arab Women? | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...People with BDD often obsess over their physical appearance to an unhealthy extreme. Unlike eating disorders, which show a disproportionate incidence among women, BDD­ is evenly represented between the genders. According to Wilhelm, recent studies have found that a whopping four to five percent of college students may suffer from this condition. In extreme cases, patients are basically housebound, terrified of social interaction because of their warped self image. “When a BDD patient looks in the mirror, she will zoom right into the hot spots,” Wilhelm says...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall.... | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Mystery of Pain Why does the same joint problem make one person suffer terribly while another has no pain at all? There are a few clues that might solve this puzzle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Not Against, Like, Oh Wow Man, Pot | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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