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FABRIC salutes the African diaspora through ‘Baakoye’

The tone of news stories about celebrity breast cancer treatments may be influencing women’s decisions about their own therapy, researchers suggest. Nancy Keating (HMS) is quoted.

The first night people sleep in a new place, one of their brain hemispheres remains somewhat alert, a study shows. Steven Stufflebeam (Mass General) and Jyrki Ahveninen (Mass General) are quoted.

This article discusses daily prescribing patterns for antibiotics in the U.S. Jeffrey Linder (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.

Laura Janneck (Cambridge Health Alliance) and Hanni Stoklosa (Brigham and Women’s) co-authored this article about the need for medical care providers to recognize and address human trafficking.

HMS researchers discover two ways a compound blocks dengue virus

Bruce Zetter (Boston Children’s) co-authored this opinion piece on Vice President Joseph Biden’s new “moonshot” effort against cancer.

Emily Bruno (Boston Children’s) and Mark Shrime (Mass. Eye and Ear) co-authored this opinion piece about the global burden of surgical diseases.

As of March 1, Harvard Medical School had raised $531 million, achieving just over 70 percent of its goal of $750 million. Jeffrey S. Flier (HMS dean) is quoted.

Hanni Stoklosa (Brigham and Women’s) participated in an interview about human trafficking in the U.S.

Giovanni Traverso (Brigham and Women’s) created a prototype of an indigestible pill that tracks three vital signs at once.

This article discusses transcranial magnetic stimulation, which activates neurological pathways in carefully targeted areas of a patient’s brain. Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Beth Israel Deaconess) is quoted.