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NEWS
By Hana N. Rouse and Justin C. Worland
Thursday, May 24, 2012
EdX represents an opportunity to advance pedagogy by encouraging research and collaboration between institutions of higher learning, with the support of the influential Harvard and MIT brands.
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NEWS
By Jane Seo
Friday, May 18, 2012
The prize for the very best thesis in the Harvard senior class went to two students this year, one who proposed ways to address cholera epidemics in Haiti for her thesis and another who wrote a collection of poems.
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NEWS
By D. SIMONE KOVACS and Fatima Mirza
Friday, May 18, 2012
Associate professor of medicine R. Paul Johnson has been appointed the new interim director of the New England Primate Research Center after Frederick Wang resigned following the death of four primates in the Harvard Medical School laboratories.
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NEWS
By David W. Kaufman
Friday, May 11, 2012
Physicians looking to make surgeries safer took some cutting-edge questions in medical device design to a group of Harvard students, who presented their attempts at solutions this week.
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NEWS
By Nathalie R. Miraval
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The primate, which has been identified as a marmoset, died in the New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass. after escaping from its cage, being caught with a net by NEPRC staff, and undergoing an imaging procedure.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a new web-based diagnostic procedure to identify autism more quickly, which they hope will allow clinicians to provide better care to their patients.
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NEWS
By Emi F. Nietfeld
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Practicing yoga instead of taking a traditional physical education class can be an effective way for improving the mental health of high school students, according to a recent study co-led by a Harvard Medical School professor.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Friday, April 6, 2012
Individuals with mutations in specific genes have a high risk of autism, according to scientists working independently at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Washington in Seattle.
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NEWS
By Charlene M. Mortyn, Jennifer S Shi, Sora S Tannenbaum, and Karen Zhou
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Today in Photos: 4/4/12
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NEWS
By Cynthia W. Shih
Monday, April 2, 2012
New research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that routine mammography screenings may lead to a significant amount of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer. Generally viewed as an important tool in detecting breast cancer, mammography screening was found to overdiagnose between 15 to 25 percent of breast cancer cases.
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