Word: varmus
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Perhaps now she has been defused. Last week researchers announced that they were halting the study 13 months early. Reason: tamoxifen, they've learned, does indeed prevent breast cancer. It's the first drug ever shown to do so. Said Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the NIH, in announcing the results: "This is a big deal...
More of a big deal than he'd expected, perhaps. Although Varmus and other officials were careful to stress that tamoxifen is a potentially deadly drug with serious risks and unpleasant side effects, that message was all but lost in the initial euphoria. Breast cancer justifiably terrifies American women--so badly that many latched on to the discovery and ignored the downside...
...years ago, when National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus was picked to be Harvard's commencement speaker, many members of the Class of 1996 asked why their speaker couldn't be someone better known, like Vaclav Havel, the 1995 speaker, or Al Gore '69, who spoke...
Recent speakers include Harold Varmus, directorof the National Institutes of Health, in 1996;Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in1995; Vice President Al Gore '69, in 1994 andGeneral Colin Powell, former chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff...
Unlike last year's commencement speaker, Director of the National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus, who did not inspire students' interest, Albright's experiences with foreign policy and her ability to break through the glass ceiling of national government are ingredients for an engaging and important speech...