When it comes to describing medical findings, researchers may need to tone it down a bit, according to a group of heart journal editors. Christopher Cannon, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was one of a group of cardiology journal editors publishing a statement this week.

A pair of Boston physicians with experience working on national health policy are launching a new journal focused on changes in the health care system, including new payment methods. Sachin H. Jain, HMS lecturer on health care policy and Amol Navathe, HMS clinical fellow in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, expect the first issue of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation to be published next summer.

It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image. In a new study, more than 40 percent of boys in middle school and high school said they regularly exercised with the goal of increasing muscle mass. Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids. Harrison Pope, HMS professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is quoted.