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Recent Coverage of HMS in the News
April 23, 2013

Mark Boguski, HMS associate professor of pathology at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, participated in a conversation about IBM’s Watson, and using it to improve the state of human medicine.

April 23, 2013

Harvard Medical School announced it would wind down operations of the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) over the next 12 to 24 months.

April 22, 2013

Recent studies show that patients ignore doctor’s orders, and much more frequently than physicians would care to acknowledge. An HMS study about prescriptions is cited. Author Suzanne Koven is an assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

April 22, 2013

A government task force recommended last Monday that women at high risk of breast cancer consider taking drugs to prevent the disease. Judy Garber, HMS professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.

April 22, 2013

Every nook of the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, on the tip of the old Charlestown Navy Yard, was designed to eliminate barriers, starting with sensors that open doors with the nod of a head. The facility is emblematic of the transformation rehabilitation medicine has undergone.

April 22, 2013

Parents of teens with asthma can remind them to take medications, fill their prescriptions, and make appointments with pediatricians who probably know the child well. But a few years later, when the young adult has left home for college or to live independently, that oversight is gone — and their care can suffer. Kao-Ping Chua, HMS clinical fellow in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, led the research.

April 21, 2013

Major academic medical centers around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer. The HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics is mentioned. Peter Tonellato, HMS research associate in biomedical informatics and Robert C. Green, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, are quoted.

April 18, 2013

Hundreds of people were in close proximity to the deafening bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon on Monday, and many have been treated at local hospitals for serious ear injuries. But hearing specialists say an untold number of other people could be suffering from hearing loss or ringing in their ears, called tinnitus, though they did not seek out medical help immediately.

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