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...chicken pox, but because of its faculty’s nebulous relationships with drug companies. The practice of pharmaceutical companies having contracts with medical professors is not peculiar to Harvard—collaboration and financial backing of doctors by pharmaceuticals is common in the field. What is unique at HMS, however, is that these relationships are not openly disclosed to the student body or the public...
...lack of transparency in these partnerships has aroused quite a stir among HMS students uncomfortable with the influence that drug companies may have on their professors’ course material, and with good reason. Harvard’s policy of not disclosing its teachers’ ties to drug companies must end. Similar to common practice at other medical schools, HMS must create a uniform and standardized way of disclosing its faculty members’ ties to their funding, regardless of the effort it will take to collect this data...
According to a study released by HMS this week, watching television does not make babies smarter. Duh. But what about videos like “Baby Einstein?” Still no, say the researchers. While it won’t necessarily hurt to let your little one watch educational programs, there are better things you can do to set your baby on the road to a perfect SAT score...
...that he could not comment on Grassley’s request. Cameron said that he was present at the student protest last fall but did not know anything about the presence of a Pfizer representative at the time. “It was a public event, and people outside HMS were invited in,” he said, adding that “a lot of people there were taking pictures.” Thomas P. Stossel, an HMS professor and long-time proponent of industry in medicine, said that Grassley’s inquiry...
...official: HMS Professor Jim Kim is off to be President of Dartmouth, putting a spotlight on Asians in the Ivy League. Reactions around the ancient eight have been somewhat...mixed...