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...most of his life, al-Jaafari thought less about how to run a government and more about how to topple one. In the 1970s, al-Jaafari, a physician, was a rising star in the Islamic Dawa Party and fled with the leadership to Iran and then Britain in the 1980s when Saddam outlawed the movement. He speaks English well but not with the facility of a native speaker and prefers to conduct interviews through an interpreter. Since becoming Prime Minister, al-Jaafari has lived within the Green Zone in what had been one of Saddam's favorite palaces...
...chose as one of your heroes theologian and physician Peter Okaalet, who works in Africa with pastors and their congregations to redefine their response to the AIDS epidemic. Okaalet exemplifies the most important weapon in our war on poverty and disease: education. He teaches people to let go of the holier-than-thou attitude of condemning others, and he helps them recognize that preventive medicine takes us one step closer to the dream of solving the developing world's problems...
Thomas J. Gill ’85, a team physician for the New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, and Boston Red Sox, and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, offered his words of wisdom to a group of undergraduates, many of whom aspire to forge medical careers of their...
...School of Public Health and Brigham & Women’s Hospital has found. The team, headed by Dr. Wolfgang Winkelmayer, sent out questionnaires every two years to 238,371 female nurses, asking for medical histories and lifestyle information—including coffee consumption. These were compared with incidence of physician-reported and self-reported high blood pressure. The study, published last Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a “modest inverse U-shaped relation” between coffee consumption and hypertension after controlling for other factors such as diet and smoking. While not disputing...
...review for the public by Consumer Reports rates the Lifestyles Ultra Sensitive, which we provide, as one of the top three condoms for reliability and strength.” Ballinger also said she had spoken with David C. Olson, practice director of obstetrics and gynecology at UHS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who agreed that condoms available on the market now have been tested thoroughly and are of equivalent efficienty. He said that user preference is often a deciding factor. In 2003, CHI provided Durex-brand condoms, but switched brands in accordance...