Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study conducted by doctors at the Medical School concludes that a new psoriasis treatment. known as photochemotherapy (PUVA), increases the risk of two types of skin tumors in certain high-risk patients...
Photochemotherapy was first introduced in 1974, when dermatologists hailed it as a major advance in the treatment of psoriasis. It is still in the testing stage, although almost 35,000 people received the treatment last year...
...study pinpoints who should and who should not receive PUVA treatment," Robert S. Stern, instructor in Dermatology at the Medical School, said yesterday. We've shown that people with previous X-ray skin treatment or who have had skin tumors in the past are at a higher risk with the photochemotherapy treatment," Stern said...
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...status on campus of the armed forces' Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), establishment of a viable Afro-American Studies Department, and an end to Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty's shabby treatment of the Afro Department, and Harvard's blatant disregard of the rights and needs of its tenants and neighbors in Cambridge, remain as reminders that some wounds do not heal with time...