Back in April, former veterans from Google and Twitter joined forces to launch an Internet start up to sell a product that could change the way Americans discover their risk for certain cancers. Robert Green, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Sarah Wakeman, instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, participated in an interview about the rising death toll from opiate overdoses and the city of Boston’s plans to fight the crisis.
Ian Krop, assistant professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, participated in an interview about the progress made in the past decade in devising more specific types of cancer treatment, particularly against breast cancer.
While stem cells from bone marrow have become an established therapy for a handful of blood cancers - and while there are high hopes that the cells will someday lead to other major medical advances - critics say entrepreneurs are treating patients with little or no evidence that what they do is effective. George Daley, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
If you thought meditation was good only for your emotional well-being, think again: A new study suggests it may also alleviate the symptoms of two gut disorders. Braden Kuo, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the research; Manoj Bhasin, assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, co-authored the study; and Towia Libermann, associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is a senior researcher for the study.
Researchers have figured out how to get yeast to produce morphine, codeine and other similar drugs and have immediately urged regulators to control these drug-brewing yeasts before people start trying to make them at home. George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, is quoted.
Doctors warn that a steady onslaught of loud noise, particularly through ear buds, is damaging the hearing of a generation wired for sound — although they may not realize it for years. Sharon Kujawa, associate professor of otology and laryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, is quoted.
Thomas Stossel, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote this opinion piece about the Massachusetts Gift Ban Law that prohibits medical product companies from providing “gifts” to health care practitioners and requires that companies report all other payments to them to the Department of Health for public dissemination.
Helen Farrell, instructor in psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, about civil commitment and inpatient psychiatry as an experience can be pivotal to the ongoing work that occurs outside of the hospital.
