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Without calling NutraSweet a definite health threat, Steven Farber of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Science and the Technology Policy Program said the current testing system which relies on chemical companies to police themselves is "inadequate...
...part of a giant clinical experiment," said Farber, indicating that he didn't think anyone was keeping track of the results...
This year's coordinator, Deborah Farber '88, says her selections are based on a proposal's potential to use the space in an "original creative manner." This sounds fine, but the selections she made do not bear the vision out. The selection of six shows from 23 applicants this term, or from 30 last spring, seems to have had to do primarily with another vague term HRDC people use a lot, "balance...
Anthony Cipoletta (at right), a young patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has probably never seen ice-skating. He also does not know that the Jimmy Fund, the primary source of private contributions to the Institute, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Neither does he know that the Evening with Champions is among the largest contributors to the Fund. The annual skating exhibition has raised over three quarters of a million dollars over the last 18 years for the research and treatment of childhood cancer...
...opinion that she probably was overtreated," says Dr. I. Craig Henderson, director of the Breast Evaluation Center at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Henderson notes that several studies have shown that lumpectomy, followed by radiation treatment, is every bit as effective as mastectomy for even average-size breast tumors. In both procedures, women with early-stage cancers have a more than 90% chance of surviving at least five years after surgery. Modified radical mastectomy, however, remains the choice of most surgeons for women with large tumors...