New cases of hepatitis C are drastically underreported to federal officials, researchers contend in a new study. Arthur Kim, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior study author.
Pamela Silver, Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, wrote this letter to the editor about the environment for women in academia and industry.
It’s your health. So it’s time you took control of all the information about it. That’s the message that a growing number of patient advocates are trying to spread to American health-care consumers. Daniel Sands, assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Myechia Minter-Jordan, part-time instructor in medicine and faculty director for the Abundance Agents of Change Program at the Center for Primary Care, wrote this article about the clock runing out on federal dollars to support the training of primary care physicians.
David Reich, professor of genetics, participated in an interview about his study sequencing the genome of an ancient jawbone specimen. He explains what this discovery helps us understand about the early interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe.
A crusading physician says medical progress is hampered by a holier-than-thou ‘moralistic bullying.’ Thomas Stossel, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Public health officials may soon be able to screen patients for Ebola at border crossings and hospitals with a finger-prick blood test that takes mere minutes. The development of the rapid diagnostic test represents a significant victory for scientists around the world who have been experimenting over the past year with all manner of vaccines, treatments and other ways of eradicating the virus. Nira Pollock, assistant professor of medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, is senior author of the paper. Megan Murray, professor of global health and social medicine, is a co-lead author.
