MAY / JUNE 2002

AROUND HARVARD

Links to selected news items from the Harvard Community

New Breast Cancer Drugs Expand Treatment Options
Women’s Health Watch – April 2002

Are You Getting Too Much Vitamin A?
Harvard Health Letter – March 2002

Clinical Trials for Prostate Cancer
Men’s Health Watch – March 2002

Symposium Addresses Researchers’ Obligations to Participants in Scientific Studies
Harvard Public Health Now

Researchers Chronicle Unequal, Race-based Health Care
Focus Newsletter

$40 Million Award to Launch Lab for Protein Discover
Focus Newsletter

The New Ancient Trend in Medicine
Harvard Magazine

Study Finds Significant Racial Disparities in Quality of Care for Participants in Medicare Managed Care Plans
HSPS press releases

Common protein may hold key to diagnosis of ovarian cancer
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Symposium on cancer-survivor research looks at long-term health effects of disease
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Activating Brain Hemisphere Lifts Spirits of some Depressed Patients
McLean Hospital

The 15% Solution for Majority Health Concern (pdf file)
PASTEUR – originally published in Nature

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