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Kovacs, juniors Jon Garrity and Megan Watson, and sophomore Drew Robb split time skippering for Harvard, as senior Elyse Dolbec, juniors Kerry Anne Bradford and Watson, sophomore Michelle Konstadt, and freshman Meghan Wareham rotated crew duties for the Crimson...
...When products as serious as medications, which can have dangerous side effects, are marketed directly to the public, who should monitor the claims, and how? Bioethicist Katie Watson at Northwestern University notes that the blame for misleading ads such as Pfizer's doesn't always lie with one party. "We have an oil and water situation where we have our drug development and sales done on a free market model in the same way we sell cars and refrigerators," she says. "But our medical care is done on a fiduciary duty, privacy and trust model. We throw those two together...
...consumer advertising for drugs in 1997. That allowed pharmaceutical companies to use advertising as a guise for educating patients. While patients feel more knowledgeable about diseases and their options for treating them, where does that information come from? In most cases, it's from industry-sponsored advertising, notes Watson. "The pharmaceutical marketing departments have appropriated the language of the empowered autonomous patient in the service of sales," she says. Moreover, while the FDA can request that pharmaceutical companies provide ads for the agency to review before airing, it does not have the authority to enforce this request. An agency spokesperson...
...saint had died in a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. “Chaucer wrote the first poem in English celebrating Valentine’s Day and is the earliest writer we know of to associate the day with love and romance,” said English professor Nicholas J. Watson, who teaches a freshman seminar on the poet. Chaucer’s fourteenth century poem “Parliament of Fowls,” explains “For this was on seynt Volantynys day / Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese [choose] his make [mate...
Other notable supporters of the initiative are Nobel Laureate and discoverer of the structure of DNA James D. Watson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker...