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Over winter break, senior Samuel R. Cross ’07 received the results of a routine blood test and discovered that he has acute myelogenous leukemia, a condition that has led to chemotherapy instead of returning to classes. Now, Sam urgently needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. His plight has suddenly catapulted blood and organ donation into the Harvard community’s hearts and minds, a place where we hope this important cause will linger...
...National Marrow Donor Program registry tests healthy individuals for their bone marrow type and sometimes matches them with sick patients. In order to register, potential donors must get an HLA test, which costs over 50 dollars, a cost that seems prohibitively high. The government subsidizes testing costs for certain minority groups, some health insurance policies cover HLA testing, and the families of the sick often offer to pay the cost of potential donors’ tests, as Cross’ family has done. But, in order to encourage more widespread HLA testing and potentially save many lives, we hope that...
...won’t teachers cheat, or teach to the test? Most won’t cheat, and the few that might can be held in check by appropriate monitoring systems. And if a test is designed well, why shouldn’t teachers try to provide students with the background necessary to pass...
...other Arab nations accepted Israel's right to exist in 1947, the Palestinians could have been living for the past 40 years in a state of their own. The Palestinians could have bargained for a homeland in 1967. But once again the Arabs failed to grasp the offer, ''to test us and be astonished by our generosity,'' as Abba Eban put it. That is disingenuous. The Palestinians obviously missed an opportunity. But the Israelis made it clear after the Six-Day War that
...many physicians losing income, a diagnostic center is an attractive income generator. CT angiography, MRI, ultrasound and electrodiagnostics all pay comparably more and incur far less liability than giving medicines, doing procedures or performing most surgeries. The pure diagnostician renders the information from his fancy test, takes the money and walks away--a great business model. Electromyograms to "diagnose" carpal tunnel syndrome, for one, usually pay more than the surgery to correct...