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Harvard Grad Student Becomes First Active Military Member Crowned Miss America
A graduate student at Harvard has made history as the first active duty member of the military to be crowned Miss America. Madison Marsh, who is working on her master's degree in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and currently a graduate intern with Harvard Medical School, was crowned on Sunday, Jan. 14. She is also the reigning Miss Colorado. The 22-year-old graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in physics in 2023, according to her pageant bio. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miss Ameri…
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Harvard Morgue Manager Kept Body Parts At Home, Sold Them To Black Market Network: Feds
A manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue is accused of stealing body parts from cadavers and selling them to several people across the country, federal investigators said. Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, is charged with interstate transport of stolen goods — the goods being human body parts, according to the US Department of Justice. His wife, Denise Lodge, is also charged in the case. Other members of the "nationwide network" who are also charged with interstate transport of stolen goods include: Katerina Maclean, age 44, of Salem, Massachusetts Joshua Taylor, 4…
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Harvard-Educated Sleep Doctor Slept Well In Brookline Home He Bought Defrauding Patients: Feds
A federal grand jury indicted a Brookline sleep doctor this week on charges that he ran multiple frauds and laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him purchase a $1.6 million home in the toney town. Dr. Pankaj Merchia, 49, faces three counts of money laundering and one count of health care fraud stemming from the alleged schemes, the US Attorney's Office said. The indictment lays out the two alleged frauds. In one, Merchia continued to bill patients' insurance companies for monthly rentals of CPAP and BiPap machines — breathing devices used to treat sleep …
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Doctor Shot, Killed By Disgruntled Patient In Tulsa Has Ties To Northeast
One of the victims in the mass shooting at the Tulsa, Oklahoma hospital has ties to the Northeast. Dr. Preston J. Phillips was a Harvard Medical School graduate who worked at the Yale New Haven Hospital for years during his residency before ultimately landing as an orthopedic surgeon at the hospital where he was murdered. Phillips, age 59, was one of four people who were shot and killed by Michael Louis - also known as Michelet Louis - on Wednesday, June 1, when the gunman purchased an assault rifle and gunned them down at the Warren Clinic Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. Poli…
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Covid-
19: See How Many Years Americans Killed By Virus Would Have Lived Otherwise, Study Shows
The average American who has succumbed to COVID-19 could have kept on living for another 13 years, according to a new Harvard University study. The assumption that COVID-19 is only killing elderly people near a natural death is not supported by research, said study author Stephen J. Elledge, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School. The study looks at the 194,000 COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic to October. By looking at actuarial data on life expectancy and demographics, researchers said that more than 2.5 million person-years of life have been…
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Covid-
19: New Study Reveals Danger To Younger Americans, Who Are Dying At Historic Rate
Contrary to popular belief, COVID-19 is taking its toll on younger Americans, who are dying at a historic rate, according to a new study. Research published this week in the Journal of American Medical Association found that Americans between the ages of 25 and 44 have died at a rate that has never been seen in history. During the study, a total of 76,088 deaths were reported in adults between those ages, which was 11,899 more than the expected 64,189 fatalities during that stretch. Of those deaths, 38 percent were contributed to COVID-19. “Although the remaining excess deaths are unexpla…
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Covid-
19: Things May Not Be Back To Normal For At Least A Year, Hunker Down, Says Fauci
With the United States barreling toward flu season, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been the leading voice of health experts during the COVID-19 outbreak, is cautioning that the end of the pandemic may not be near. During a panel discussion with doctors from the Harvard Medical School, Fauci said that Americans are going to “need to hunker down and get through the fall and winter, because it’s not going to be easy” if they hope to get the virus under control. The number of new daily COVID-19 cases has been slowly declining, but there have still been nearly 200,000 virus-related deaths and more t…