Posts Tagged ‘risks’
Harvard Medical School Gets an "F"
BOSTON — In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects. Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including five makers of cholesterol treatments. “I felt really violated,” Mr. Zerden, now a fourth-year student, recently recalled. “Here we have 160 open minds trying to learn the basics in a protected space, and the information he was giving wasn’t as pure as I think it should be.”
Top Health Risks for Young Adults
Feb. 18, 2009 — Youth is often painted as a time of picture-perfect health, but that’s not necessarily reality, a new CDC report shows. The CDC today released its latest roundup of U.S. health statistics, with a special focus on young adults 18-29. Highlights of the findings on young adults include:
