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  • Fourteen Researchers Honored at 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Research Symposium

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, April 22, 2013, — Harvard Medical School- Chinese Scholars and Scientists Association (HMS-CSSA) has selected twelve young investigators for 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award. The two-day Symposium was held on April 13 and 14 at Harvard Medical School, and attracted about 200 participants from Harvard Medical School and 17 affiliated institutions, major US medical and research institutions across the country, and Chinese medical science research community.
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    Speakers and organizers pose for a picture at 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Research Symposium. (photo by David Li)
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  • Cancer Survivors from Shanghai to Present a Special Performance at John Hancock Hall

    A special performance will be presented by the performing troupe of the Shanghai Cancer Rehabilitation Club, composed entirely of cancer survivors. It will be staged at John Hancock Hall in Boston on May 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM.
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  • Millions of People Die Prematurely by Consuming Too Much Salt and Sugar-sweetened Beverages

    Too much salt eating linked to millions of heart-related deaths worldwide: study

    WASHINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua) — Eating too much salt contributed to 2.3 million deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other heart-related diseases throughout the world in 2010, representing 15 percent of all deaths due to these causes, according to a research finding presented Thursday at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions.
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  • Construction Starts on Tufts Tuberculosis Research Lab, Asian Women for Health Awarded Grant by The Lenny Zakim Fund

    Construction Starts on Tufts Tuberculosis Research Lab

    BOSTON (Feb. 15, 2013) – Construction has started on Tufts University’s planned tuberculosis research laboratory. The Arnold 8 Biosafety Laboratory is slated to be built within Tufts’ existing medical research building at 136 Harrison Avenue.
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  • Update on City of Boston Flu Emergency

    Boston, Jan. 11, 2013, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced updates to the City’s response plan for an increasingly severe flu season. Twenty-two community health centers across the City have committed to providing free public clinics this weekend; a full list of participating centers can be found at www.bphc.org.
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  • 2013 Lunar New Year Gala Brought to You by New England Chinese Professionals

    The New England Chinese Professionals 2013 Lunar New Year Gala & Community Enrichment Forum will be held at the Marriott Boston-Newton Hotel on Sunday, Feb 10, 2013. This event is co-organized by twleve professional organizations and the Boston Chinese Alumni Associations Coalition. The Gala will feature social and professional forums, cultural performances and show, Chinese New Year banquet, ballroom dancing, Karaoke, and many great networking opportunities with local Chinese-American professionals, artists, lawyers, doctors, and scientists. Please join us to celebrate the Year of the Snake and for a night of fun, excitement and unforgettable memories!
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  • Xi Jinping Visits AIDS Patients on the Eve of World AIDS Day

    (from chinadaily.com.cn)

    BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2012 – Vice President Xi Jinping on Friday visited a group of people living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing, urging society to abandon discrimination against such groups and “to light their life with love.”

    Xi shakes hands with an HIV positive patient.
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  • New Study Links Lower Fertility Rates to Female Off-farm Employment in China

    Cambridge Mass. — Women in China’s workforce have significantly lower fertility rates than those who are not employed. That is one finding in a new Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Working Paper co-authored by HKS Professor Richard Zeckhauser.
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  • Thoughts After Sandy – What Should We Eat in Emergency?

    By Lin Kong, Master of Nutrition Science (from linjoyfulbite.wordpress.com)


    		 How did you go through Sandy in the past two days? Being so lucky that no power outage happened to me on Monday, I just curled up in my coach and watched 3 movies. Obviously I was not prepared at all-no water was stored and I had only 3 cans of bean at home. Although I was lucky enough to be unaffected by the hurricane this time, the absence of coworkers the next day and the sad stories on the news made me think-what should we prepare before the crisis to carry us and our family through?
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  • Tufts Medical Center to Provide Free Cervical and Breast Cancer Screenings to Uninsured Women on October 13

    BOSTON – For the third straight year, Tufts Medical Center will host See, Test & Treat®, a free cervical and breast cancer screening program, sponsored by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and funded through grants from the CAP Foundation. The program features same day medical tests, diagnoses and follow-up care for uninsured and underserved women ages 21 and older, all in a single visit. The program will take place on Saturday, October 13, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in the OB/GYN clinic on the second floor of Tufts Medical Center’s South Building (860 Washington Street in Boston).

    Staff from Tufts Medical Center was providing free health checkups and consultation at an event in Tai Tung Village in Boston Chinatown on August 7, 2012. (photo by David Li)
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