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While Young was cataloging the hospital's data on procedures involving Shiels' technique, which Shiels first introduced to the hospital in 1995, Young realized that some of the patients hadn't injured themselves accidentally. Unlike the majority of people who came in for treatment - for stepping on a piece of glass or being impaled by a particularly large splinter - these patients' wounds were self-inflicted. "I started to see three or four instances where the foreign-body cases were not accidental," he says. "I started to think it was a little strange and mentioned it to Dr. Shiels...
...become largely insignificant,” Meierhenrich said. Executive Director of the University Committee on Human Rights Jacqueline Bhabha, also noting flaws, said that the anniversary was not one to be celebrated. “We have moved ourselves into a worse direction as far as the treatment of survivors,” Bhabha said. “I think we fail dramatically, in terms of our response to genocide and our obligation to reconstruct a life and a world for the survivors.” Bhabha said that since 1948, the anti-genocide movement has not moved forward...
Traditionally, infections are treated with conventional antibiotics. But a new treatment designed by a Harvard researcher replaces pills with light...
...Kishony, a systems biologist and the third Gates grant recipient, is researching how using multiple drugs that suppress each other can surprisingly lead to more effective treatment...
...example, if a bacteria is treated with two drugs, A and B, and becomes resistant to drug A, then drug A is no longer an effective treatment. But if drug A suppresses some of the effect of drug B, then developing a resistance to drug A might allow drug B to become more potent, thus having an overall deleterious effect on the bacteria. In effect, Kishony said, “getting beat up by one is worse than getting beat up by both...