According to a new study, DNA signatures suggest generations of interbreeding between Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens may have started some 50,000 years earlier than previously believed. Sriram Sankararaman (HMS) is quoted.
Sari Reisner (Boston Children’s) co-authored this article about a two-year research project underway at Fenway Institute to study a diverse array of trans masculine people about their experiences seeking and accessing health care and the sexual health of trans masculine adult patients.
Shalender Bhasin (Brigham and Women’s) participated in an interview about the seven linked trials he led that examine the benefits of a year of testosterone gel (vs. placebo gel) in more than 700 men over age 65.
Steffie Woolhandler (Beth Israel Deaconess) and David Himmelstein (Beth Israel Deaconess) co-authored a commentary on why the fear that the Medicare-for-All plan would disrupt and threaten Americans’ health care may be misplaced.
Recent studies suggest eating an average of one egg a day, including the yolk, is fine. The yolk contains the bulk of an egg’s iron, folate and vitamins. The yolks also contain two nutrients—lutein and zeaxanthin—that support eye and brain health. Luc Djoussé (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
From the cacophony of day care to the buzz of TV and electronic toys, noise is more distracting to a child’s brain than an adult’s, and new research shows it can hinder how youngsters learn. Amir Lahav (Brigham and Women’s) led the study.
Five years into Medicare spending cuts that were supposed to devastate private Medicare options for older Americans, enrollment in private insurance plans through Medicare has shot up by more than 50 percent, confounding experts and partisans alike and providing possible lessons for the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges. Michael Chernew (HMS) is quoted.
Massachusetts General Hospital, the third-oldest general hospital in the nation, plans to open a concierge medicine practice. Michael Jaff (Mass General) is quoted.
