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Surgeon Gives Hand to Boston School Athletes
Wins One of Two Lifetime Achievement Awards for Community Service More than 20 years ago, Lyle Micheli, HMS clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Childrens Hospital Boston, cofounded the sports medicine clinic at the hospital.A few years later, it was...
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Harvard President Visits HSPH AIDS Facilities in Botswana
In November, Harvard President Drew Faust toured clinics and laboratories of the BotswanaHarvard Partnership for HIV Research and Education (BHP) in and around Botswanas capital, Gaborone.Established in 1996, the BHP is a research and training collaboration...
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Goats Abound on Second-years Mountain
While examining a new mother and her baby in a remote Haitian clinic, HMSs physiciananthropologisthumanitarian extraordinaire Paul Farmer learns some astounding news: his longtime best buddy and partner in health, Jim Yong Kim, has just accepted the position of...
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Late Adolescent Obesity Linked to Multiple Sclerosis
Contents Jan.8, 2010 RESEARCH BRIEFS C COMMUNITY News Notable In Memoriam Priscilla Schaffer Robert Smith Ralph Warren FORUM UPCOMING Calendar Highlights RESEARCH BRIEFS W We all know that obesity endangers health. But now researchers at HSPH have given us...
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Flu-fighting Proteins Found in Human Cells
Contents Jan.8, 2010 RESEARCH BRIEFS C COMMUNITY News Notable In Memoriam Priscilla Schaffer Robert Smith Ralph Warren FORUM UPCOMING Calendar Highlights RESEARCH BRIEFS W We all know that obesity endangers health. But now researchers at HSPH have given us...
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Jekyll-and-Hyde Switch May Turn Off Infection
Two-on-one Conflict Emerges as Model of Parasitic Interaction with Host Its a war out there.Even on the level of bacteria and other microbes, theres a constant arms race, each side developing weapons to target the others weakness and defenses against the...
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Science Trends for All Americans to Watch
To open the new year, Focus asked the heads of HMS departments to comment on this question: What trend in biomedical or social science do you think Americans should pay most attention to and why?We told them they could respond themselves or pass the question...
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MicroRNA Matchmaking Put to the Test
Technology Enables Analysis at Chosen Time and Place in Living Fruit Fly Labs that probe tiny molecules called microRNAs often resemble online dating services.They use software to search for genetic sequences that match the microRNAs, scanning the genome for...
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Math Lens Sharpens Biological Picture
Scientific Challenge Supports Competing Views of Complex Living Systems In an empirical science like biology, in which experimentation and observed results rule the day, should data speak for itself?Well, not necessarily, said Peter Sorger? It depends on...
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The Dollars and Sense of Vaccination for Cervical Cancer
Dollar for dollar, vaccinating U.S.girls age 11 or 12 against human papillomavirus (HPV) is a better health investment than vaccinating boys or women older than 30, concluded the authors of two recent cost-effectiveness studies. Vaccinating girls age 11 or...
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