Large employers are increasingly putting an end to their most generous health-care coverage as a tax on “Cadillac” insurance plans looms closer under Obamacare. Michael Chernew, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, is quoted.
arvard University has long played an outsized role in spurring the growth of the Boston area’s life sciences industry, but the school’s contributions have largely unfolded behind the scenes. But as plans progress for an “enterprise research campus” that could house biomedical companies in Boston’s Allston neighborhood in coming years, Harvard officials have begun to take stock of the university’s place in the region’s innovation economy. Alan Garber, provost of Harvard Universtiy and Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy, is mentioned.
A new gene therapy may reverse hearing loss by stimulating the regrowth of microscopic hair cells in the inner ear, allowing people to hear. Jeffrey Holt, associate professor of otology and laryngology at Children’s Hospital Boston, is quoted.
