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Children who play together share more than toys; they also share germs. The potentially dangerous bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae may spread more rapidly among children who attend day-care, according to a recent study conducted by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers...
...researchers, including first author Susan S. Huang, an instructor at HMS in Infectious Diseases and an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, designed a regression model showing that the likelihood of carrying pneumococcus may be predicted with better success at the community level than at the individual level...
...Harvard-MIT Broad Institute—along with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School (HMS)—will be a part of the effort...
...There is a lot of misinformation in the public domain...if adequately explained, most people are in favor of moving forward,” said Zon, who is also a professor of pediatrics at HMS. “Even among conservative voters, the public supports the research and seems to trust what the scientists tell them—which is probably why the opposition has to resort to propaganda campaigns...
...Romney] says that he is opposed to the creation of human life for research,” said Dan W. Brock, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at HMS. “That principle which he has enunciated would make him opposed to both somatic cell nuclear transfer and to the use of IVF for non-reproductive purposes...