In order to improve treatment strategies for common conditions among former football players, the Football Players Health Study—led by a team of Harvard researchers — launched a smartphone app, TeamStudy. The app has two tracks, a survey of former NFL players to determine the health issues of greatest concern, and a simultaneous effort to find ways of addressing those issues. Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Beth Israel Deaconess) is quoted. Download the app here.
Pieter Cohen (Cambridge Health Alliance) led a study finding that a stimulant banned from competitive sports has been found in more than a dozen dietary supplements marketed for “burning” body fat.
Despite U.S. guidelines recommending against prostate cancer screening in elderly men, many specialists and older physicians still do these tests, a recent study suggests. Quoc-Dien Trinh (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Thousands of people 50 and older are diagnosed with HIV each year in the U.S., a development that has significant health care consequences. Christina Psaros (Mass General) is quoted.
Dhruv Khullar (Mass General) authored this opinion piece arguing that the ability to put aside differences to focus on problems is beneficial in medicine, as well as in politics.
Pieter Cohen (Cambridge Health Alliance) led a study finding that some supplements that claim to burn fat contain a stimulant drug that hasn’t been approved in the U.S., is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and may pose health risks.
