A 13-year-old birth control implant came under new scrutiny Thursday as federal health experts discussed a host of problems reported by women implanted with the metallic device, including chronic pain, bleeding and fatigue. Peter Schalock, associate professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Thanks to a $30 million funding deal, meditation app “Headspace” could soon join the ranks of innovative workplace wellness perks some companies offer employees. Ateev Mehrotra, associate professor of health care policy, is quoted.
In a transition that will take effect on March 1, 2016, James Bradner, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, will take over as president of the Cambridge-based Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
J. Andrew Billings, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a pioneer in palliative medicine and co-founder of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Palliative Care, died on September 6.
How much are you willing to pay for a potentially life-saving pill? It’s a question that many doctors and patients are asking themselves. Aaron Kesselheim, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
A revolutionary way of making stem cells claimed last year by Japanese and U.S. researchers never existed in the first place. That is the conclusion of two papers published on September 23 in Nature — the same journal that published the original papers early last year. George Daley, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
