Tens of thousands of serious medical mistakes happen every year at American hospitals and clinics. While a handful of health care organizations have opted for broad disclosure amid calls for greater openness, most patients and their families still face significant obstacles if they try to find out what went wrong. Robert Truog, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, Professor of Anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
A blog post about the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, that aims to produce treatments and methods that will improve the lives of current and future former football players.
Nancy Oriol, dean for students and associate professor of anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been honored by her physician peers as the 2015 Community Clinician of the Year of the Suffolk District Medical Society, one of the district societies of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional association of physicians.
Researchers are using website data to gauge the effectiveness of public policy, track changes in the market, and learn more about the people who obtain drugs this way. John Brownstein, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
Humans’ 24-hour circadian clock plays a leading role in glucose tolerance, according to a new study. Researchers have found that, because of body’s circadian rhythm, human glucose tolerance is reduced during the evening hours, even when “day” and “night” times are experimentally reversed. Christopher Morris, instructor of medicine at tBrigham and Women’s Hospital, is a study coauthor.
Rudolph Tanzi, Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Child Neurology and Mental Retardation at Massachusetts General Hospital, is featured as one of Time’s most influential peple for his work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
Nearly 70 Harvard Medical School postdoctoral fellows, professors, and administrators signed a letter arguing that recent changes to the University’s health benefits plan may disproportionately burden Harvard postdocs, whose salaries are often lower than many other non-union employees’. Michael Chernew, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, is quoted. Kristin Krukenberg, research fellow in systems biology, and Rebeccah Lijek, research fellow in microbiology and molecular genetics, are quoted.
Tobias Loddenkemper of Boston Children’s Hospital has created a device that can hopefully be used to track, warn, and eventually anticipate when seizures might occur, the first step in many to preventing seizure deaths. Loddenkemper is also an associate professor of neurology.
