Dementia is on the decline, with the risk of developing it dropping 20 percent per decade since the late 1970s, according to a new study. David Jones (HMS) is quoted.
The risk of developing dementia is decreasing for people with at least a high school education, according to a new study suggesting that changes in lifestyle and improvements in physical health can help prevent or delay cognitive decline. David Jones (HMS) is quoted.
This article examines the trend of naming medical schools. Jeffrey S. Flier (HMS dean), David Jones (HMS), Jay Loeffler (Mass General) and Lee Nadler (HMS) are quoted.
After years of planning, Harvard Medical School this fall launched a formal initiative to integrate the arts and humanities into the traditionally hard-sciences focused campus in an effort to cultivate more empathetic medical professionals. David Jones (HMS) and Ronald Arky (Brigham and Women’s) are quoted.
Dozens of cardiologists in communities outside major metro areas are performing catheterization procedures – such as diagnostic angiograms and artery-clearing angioplasties – at higher rates than doctors working at big city hospitals that serve as major cardiac referral centers. News data say it raises a critical question: How many of these catheterization procedures are medically advisable and how many put patients at unnecessary risk and add billions of dollars to the nation’s medical bill? David Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, is quoted.
