Andrea Christopher (Cambridge Health Alliance) is lead author of this new study on the benefits of Medicaid coverage. Benjamin Sommers (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Federal officials announced a crackdown on the dietary supplements industry yesterday, targeting firms that falsely claimed their pills could help people lose weight, build muscle or even kick drugs. Pieter Cohen (Cambridge Health Alliance) is quoted.
A new database includes complete sequences of protein-coding DNA from 60,706 individuals. Daniel MacArthur (Mass General) led the research and Heidi Rehm (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Case highlights growing threat of a TB strain that doesn’t respond to multiple antibiotics. Jennifer Furin (HMS) and Mercedes Becerra (HMS) are quoted.
A peculiar side effect of the 21st century is something called digital motion sickness or cybersickness. Steven Rauch (Massachusetts Eye & Ear) is 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.
Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier plans to resign next summer after nine years in office. Jeffrey S. Flier (HMS dean), Peter Slavin (president of Mass General) and Jack Rowe (Mass General) are quoted and Paul Farmer (HMS) is mentioned.
Mallika Marshall (Mass General) authored this article about sequencing the genome of newborns. Robert Green (Brigham and Women’s) and Alan Beggs (Boston Children’s) are quoted.
