Stories about "Health and medicine"
Good Eggs
Friday, February 11, 2011 9:45 am
Here in Maine, the national egg-salmonella scare didn’t surprise social-justice Batesies.
Boston Globe feature on ideal body types quotes Men's Health editor Peter Moore '78
Monday, January 24, 2011 9:24 am
A Boston Globe feature story examining how ideal male and female body…
Harvard economist visits to offer assessment of healthcare reform
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:17 pm
Joseph Newhouse, a professor of health policy and management at Harvard University and founding director of the university's doctoral program in that field, offers an assessment of the national healthcare reform enacted last year at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). The talk is sponsored by the Bates economics department and is open to the public free of charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6490.
Maine Things Considered interviews Spelt Right entrepreneur Beth George '85
Thursday, January 6, 2011 2:12 pm
Maine Public Broadcasting reporter Keith Shortall interviews Beth George ’85, who with…
R&D chief at pharmaceuticals firm to discuss drug development
Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:04 pm
A talk at Bates by Steven Kates '83, vice president of research and development for the Massachusetts pharmaceuticals company Ischemix, visits Bates College to offer the presentation Ischemix: Discovery and Development has been rescheduled from Tuesday, Nov. 2, to Monday, Nov. 8. The time and location for the event will be announced.
Civic Forums offers presentations on education reform, healthcare
Monday, October 4, 2010 10:31 am
Exploring topics of broad interest, Bates College's Civic Forum series begins in October with a panel discussion on education reform, followed by a presentation by an expert on health care finance. In a discussion titled Wrestling with School Reform in Maine: National Strategies, Local Realities, national and regional education experts examine different approaches to reform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. The following week, Dr. William Hsiao, an economist at the Harvard School of Public Health and architect of Taiwan’s universal healthcare system, offers the presentation Taiwan's Health Reforms: Lessons for the U.S. and Maine at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, also in Muskie Archives.
Environmental activist famed for revealing chemical-cancer links is 2010 Otis Lecturer
Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:32 pm
Sandra Steingraber, a biologist who published the first book linking data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries, visits Bates College to deliver the 14th annual Otis Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Speaker biographies for African Refugee Health: Best Practices
Friday, September 17, 2010 11:30 am
Here are speaker biographies for African Refugee Health: Best Practices. The conference's nearly three dozen presenters include healthcare workers from across the country and beyond; faculty in diverse disciplines from Bates and other colleges; and interpreters, social workers, counselors and other experts in breaching cultural factors that impede refugee access to healthcare.
About the Cover: Summer 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
View the story by Bill Walsh ’86 on alumni involved in drug…
The Drug Makers
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
The pharmaceutical industry stirs skepticism even as it saves lives. Alums in…