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...substantial majority of department chairs at U.S. medical schools and training hospitals have ties to the medical research industry, according to a survey conducted by doctors at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to determine the extent of those relationships. Sixty percent of department chairs who responded to the survey, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, had some form of personal relationship with private companies, ranging from collecting research funding and paid consulting to receiving free food and beverages. The findings raised concerns about research bias at academic medical centers. “These ties do impact...
...line leaving Lamont” was booted out as number one excuse for being late to tutorial in favor of, “I just found out my roommate has scabies.” (Unlike the library line, there are no questions asked.) And next time a survey comes out declaring Harvard College a sexual wasteland, we have a rebuttal. In effect, scabies has lent Harvard students a small bit of sexual legitimacy, even if it doesn’t require genital contact for transmission...
Harvard students are less stressed than their colleagues at similar institutions, including five Ivy League schools, according to a 2006 survey assessing student wellbeing released yesterday. Harvard consistently scored well in areas such as life satisfaction and ability to cope with emotion in the survey, conducted by the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adults. The survey found about 6.26 percent of Harvard students reported suffering from significant academic stress, compared with a reported average of 6.5 percent at other schools. The psychological rewards students receive from academic rigor contribute to the low rates...
...then approve contraception distribution in middle school. But does it? "It has been shown, over and over again, that this does not increase sexual activity," said Pat Patterson, the medical director of School-Based Health Centers. And most parents, in fact, WANT kids to get both messages; a 2005 survey from the Pew Forum found that 78% want public schools to teach about birth control, and 76% think schools should teach kids to abstain from sex until marriage. Three quarters of high school kids themselves favor that message...
...drop in teen pregnancies and abortions over the past 15 years. Maine Middle schoolers, like kids all across the country, are already postponing sex longer: The percentage who reported having sexual intercourse dropped from 23% in 1997 to 13% in 2005, according to the Maine Youth Risk Behavior Survey. While rates of sexually transmitted disease remain alarmingly high, the best chance of attacking the problem would transmit the values and the facts together, rather than implying that the two are at odds...