A 2008 ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has ended up being particularly costly for people with asthma. Anupam B. Jena, assistant professor of health care policy, is the lead author of the study.
A case report appeared describing the case of an otherwise healthy 53-year-old Swedish woman who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke after a workout regimen she had done regularly for several years. Pieter A. Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, led the report.
People who go to the doctor for headaches are increasingly likely to be sent for advanced testing and treatment, a study finds. John Mafi, research fellow in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the lead researcher.
The Boston Marathon bombings tied the wounded to one another, to the caregivers who saved their lives and to strangers who were nearby, forming relationships that have given them solace in their transformed lives. George Dyer, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is mentioned.
Allen Kachalia, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, coauthored this opinion piece about overuse and waste in medical care.
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Lee M. Nadler, dean for clinical and translational research at HMS, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and director of Harvard Catalyst, authored this piece about the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University.
Johnson & Johnson has appointed a nationally known bioethicist to create a panel that will make decisions about patients’ requests for potentially lifesaving medicine, responding to an emotional debate over whether companies should allow desperately ill people to have access to the drugs before they are approved. Aaron Kesselheim, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
