In less than 20 percent of family meetings in the intensive care unit do doctors and other health care providers discuss religion or spirituality, a new study finds. Tracy Balboni, associate professor of radiation oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, co-authored an accompanying editorial.
Drug retailers have found a source of growth in retail health clinics, which have been proliferating across the U.S. for the last few years. Ateev Mehrotra, associate professor of health care policy, is mentioned.
Scientists have developed an interlocking cell scaffold for easy building and dismantling of tissues. Ali Khademhosseini, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
The start of college is one of the most stressful times in a family’s life. Eugene Beresin, professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
We’re over 20 months into the Ebola epidemic, and while it has slowed over the last few months, new cases continue to emerge each week. Rajesh Panjabi, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Paul Farmer, professor of global health and social medicine, are quoted.
A new website, Callisto, launches this fall with the intention of empowering survivors of sexual assault. James Hopper, instructor in psychology at Cambridge Health Alliance, is quoted.
Google is shuttering its flu tracking program known as Flu Trends and will funnel the search data powering it to public health researchers instead. John Brownstein, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
An experimental blood test may one day detect the return of early stage breast cancer months before it is revealed by CT or MRI scans, researchers report. Tilak Sundaresan, clinical fellow in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, who co-authored a commentary published with the report, is quoted.
The online physician network Doximity, which has a data-sharing agreement with U.S. News, today released the first major update of Residency Navigator, its residency data vehicle. Debra Weinstein, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
