Three Boston organizations, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes Center, will receive $11.6 million from the federal government to expand programs focused on keeping sick seniors out of the hospital, improving the health of children with asthma, and connecting people who are homeless with better medical care. Kenneth Sands, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.

Fruits and vegetables high in a flavanoid known as rutin, may actually prevent life-threatening blood clots. Robert Flaumenhaft, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the senior author.

Harvard researchers reported that four out of every five children hospitalized in the U.S. are treated with drugs that have never been tested in children and are FDA-approved only for adults. Florence Bourgeois, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, is the author of the study.