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What would FM do without Leon? Friend, lifesaver, writer extraordinaire, our Editor-At-Large was far from an absentee contributor this year. His brainchildren—the positive psychology story, the faith issue, the study drug scrutiny—have been some of FM’s biggest successes. Always on call to lend his brain to fellow editors and freshman compers alike, Leon is, quite simply, the best...
Harvard researchers have created a genetic map that could serve as an “early warning system” for detecting drug resistance in a malaria-causing parasite. The results of the study, released Sunday in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Genetics, may help in the fight against Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly of the four parasites responsible for human malaria. The lead researcher, Dyann F. Wirth, who is also chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said that the finding could help producers of malaria vaccines...
Universities have the potential to influence pharmaceutical companies’ policies because they are crucial contributors to the drug development pipeline. It is estimated that more than half of basic science research in the United States takes place at universities. Yale, Emory, Duke, and the University of Minnesota hold patents to a number of key AIDS drugs, and the next generation of AIDS drugs is expected to continue to originate from universities...
Furthermore, Harvard can take steps to promote the research of drugs for the developing world. The current research system is woefully unprepared to address the needs of the developing world. Tens of millions of individuals suffer from “neglected disease” for which there is insufficient market potential to attract private sector response. For example, the most widely used drug for sleeping sickness, Melarsoprol, was developed over 50 years ago. Arsenic-based, it is extremely painful to administer and is so toxic that it kills five percent of those who take it. Given Harvard?...
...Senator McCain said that he “would have signed South Dakota’s extremist anti-abortion law.” HB1215, signed into law on March 6 by S.D. Governor Mike Rounds, prohibits all abortions in the state. The law also criminalizes the sale of any drug that could lead to the termination of a human embryo...