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...penned several books that question the hazard of common psychotropic drugs.Grinspoon commended the McLean team’s courage and their ability to overcome logistical obstacles. “Methodologically,” he says, “these people did really well.”Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor of Psychiatry Harrison Pope, the senior author of the McLean study, said he and Halpern were initially interested in exploring the psychological effects of a hallucinogen on individuals who used no other drugs. “The Navajo seemed a perfect test group,” Pope says, because...
Students and faculty members from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) hosted the first annual student forum on AIDS—entitled Action on AIDS: Providing Tools for Change—this past Friday and Saturday.Students from the Harvard Medical School AIDS Action Initiative (HMSAAI) and faculty members from the HMS Division of AIDS organized the event, which was held at the Tosteson Medical Education Center at HMS.Approximately 110 students, faculty members, health providers, and activists attended the forum. Students came from Columbia, Yale, Tufts, Northeastern, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts, as well as from HMS, the Harvard School...
...professor who conducted research at MIT and Caltech after graduating from Harvard Medical School (HMS) has admitted to falsifying data in at least one published paper and has been fired from his post at MIT.Luk Van Parijs, an associate professor of biology at MIT until last week, is also the subject of an inquiry at Caltech. The MIT investigation concluded that he fabricated and falsified research data in a published scientific paper, as well as grant proposals and manuscripts.A subsequent article published online Friday in the New Scientist also said that Van Parijs, who specializes in immunology, may have falsified...
...studying disease will be, adding that he is open-minded and optimistic. Using the same approach, he said, researchers have identified a gene for a common form of blindness. The HapMap also has implications for the study of evolution and natural selection. Pardis C. Sabeti, a student at HMS and a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute, looked for recent, common mutations in the genome. These genes are too young to have risen to their current frequency by chance alone, and so are likely candidates to be the products of recent natural selection. Sabeti and her colleagues are currently working...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors are questioning a colleague’s court testimony that there is no link between the short-term use of the popular painkiller Vioxx and severe heart problems.HMS Associate Professor of Medicine J. Michael Gaziano’s testimony this week in the New Jersey Superior Court broke from the published work of two of his colleagues, Assistant Professor of Medicine Daniel H. Solomon and Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You?...