In Print
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Focus:
Immune Protein Motif Linked to AIDS Resistance
Some immune proteins that excel at keeping HIV under wraps in the body share a molecular motif, according to research by Anne Goldfeld and colleagues. Now the challenge is to apply the finding to AIDS therapy in people who lack this natural resistance.
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Mentations
On The Brain
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Headlines
New Treatment May Bolster the Effectiveness of Radiation and Chemotherapy
Upcoming
Geriatric Grand Rounds:
A Team Approach to Elder Care: A Case Study in Cultural Competence
Panel discussion
Tuesday, May 22
4:30-6:00 p.m.
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Spotlight
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Ebert Speaker Takes Aim at Racial Disparities
In the April 27 Ebert Lecture at HMS, Levi Watkins Jr. of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine addressed racial disparities in U.S. health care, exhorting minority students to work to change the system. Watkins is a professor of cardiac surgery and the associate dean of the school—the first African American to hold these positions at Johns Hopkins.
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Student Scene
NAS and AAAS Address Nationwide Postdoc Issues
At two meetings in March, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science raised some troubling issues of postdoctoral fellowships, like compensation and health insurance.
Call for Writers
Are you an HMS student and a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing three to six columns a year for the Forum section of Focus and Student Scene section of WebWeekly. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.
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