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...patient starts chemotherapy and before she finds out if it's working. That may change. Italian researchers have tracked the rate at which a radioactive tracer "washes out" of patients' tumors and found that those with low wash-out rates respond better to chemo. With the data, doctors can switch treatments early or use drugs to boost the body's ability to respond...
BEHAVIORAL THERAPY When the brain sets anxiety alarms ringing, our first inclination is to find the off switch. Behavioral scientists take the opposite approach. They want you to get so accustomed to the noise that you don't hear it anymore. The standard behavioral treatment for such anxiety conditions as phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder is to expose patients to a tiny bit of the very thing that causes them anxiety, ratcheting up the exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might...
While many proposals circulated this year on how to best combat grade inflation, the Faculty unanimously voted to cap honors and to switch to the more common 4.0 grading scale...
...ensuing kickoff after the Morris-to-Taylor hookup, Crimson junior Xavier Goss forced a fumble that was recovered by senior Shawn Parker at the Dartmouth 32. On the next play, Morris made eye contact with Fitzpatrick and signaled to the rookie that he wanted to switch the play and run a fade rather than a crossing route...
Sophomore Caitlin Fisher was Harvard’s other First Team All-Ivy honoree. Fisher made the switch from the midfield to the backfield this year and become the team’s most outstanding defender, often single-handedly stopping opposing teams’ scoring runs, especially in the postseason...