Nathaniel Morris (HMS student) authored this commentary about Match Day, which will take place on March 18 this year, and the process of matching graduating medical students with residency programs at hospitals and universities across the nation.
Many nutrition researchers have been complaining about conflict-of-interest problems in their field for some time now. Whereas other fields, like medicine, have been putting in place safeguards to protect against undue industry influence, the field of nutrition has lagged behind in this regard. Jason Block (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute) is quoted.
In a time of tight budgets and widespread demand for less government spending, Congress, the White House and a growing number of candidates for president from both parties agree that at least one priority should receive more money — research into the causes and possible cures of Alzheimer’s disease. Rudolph Tanzi (Mass General) and Doo Yeon Kim (Mass General), are mentioned.
The same strategy that Martin Shkreli used to get away with a 5,000-percent price increase on an old drug is used by many other drugmakers to maintain sky-high prices on billions of dollars’ worth of medications. Ameet Sarpatwari (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
The data privacy debate has failed to highlight that granting governments access to mobile phone data opens access to not only sensitive financial and personal information, but also the crown jewels of healthcare: patient health records. John Halamka (Beth Israel Deaconess) is mentioned. MaulikMajmudar (Mass General) co-authored this piece.
Adults are more likely to have high cholesterol if their mothers had it before they were born, a U.S. study suggests. Marc Sabatine (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted and wrote an editor’s note accompanying the study.
A jury recently awarded $72 million in a talcum powder–ovarian cancer case, but the data linking the hygiene product to disease risk are inconclusive. Katie Terry (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Sonia Vallabh (HMS), Eric Minikel (HMS) and Matthew Might (HMS) participated in an interview about the impact of gene mapping, what to do with this data, and how to use it effectively, efficiently, democratically and responsibly to improve human health.
In order to spur manufacturers and policy makers to make fruits and vegetables more affordable, researchers led by Thomas Gaziano (Brigham and Women’s) calculated exactly how much benefit reducing the cost of produce would have on heart disease rates.
