The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) Medical Education Department, in association with Harvard Medical School, has granted 15 scholarships to DHA medical professionals. The scholarships have been granted for the Introduction to Clinical Research Training program.
Sparked by the sequencing of the human genome a decade ago, a new generation of prenatal screening tests has exploded onto the market. The unregulated screens claim to detect with near-perfect accuracy the risk that a fetus may have Down syndrome and a growing list of other chromosomal abnormalities. Hundreds of thousands of women in early pregnancy have taken these tests, but a three-month examination by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting has found that companies are overselling the accuracy of their tests and doing little to educate expecting parents or their doctors about the significant risks of false alarms. Michael Greene, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Atul Gawande, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, participated in a Q&A about the need to shift our focus from just good health and survival to general well-being.
Eric Perakslis, instructor in pediatrics and executive director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, participated in a radio interview about cybersecurity in health care.
A large, new study should reassure the millions of American women who have migraine: The debilitating headaches don’t raise the risk for breast cancer. Rulla Tamimi, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the research.
Dozens of Harvard Medical School students were joined by faculty and staff in a “die-in” on the school’s Boston campus. The demonstration, organized by the students, was part of protests nationwide by medical students to protest the grand jury decisions not to indict two white police officers who killed two unarmed black men, in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City this summer. Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, and Nancy Oriol, HMS dean for students and associate professor of anesthesia, are mentioned
A small group of first-year residents at Brigham and Women’s Hospital took a few hours out of their exhaustingly hectic routines to visit the Museum of Fine Arts. The field trip is mandatory, part of a “ Humanistic Curriculum” the hospital runs in an effort to turn out more reflective, well-rounded physicians. Joel Katz, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, helped develop the program.
Harvard Medical School students joined students from some 40 other medical schools across the country Wednesday in protesting the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and racial inequality in medical treatment.
An exhaustive, 120-page national report on the state of scientific postdoctoral researchers released Wednesday urges a range of reforms to ensure that thousands of well-educated scientists do not spend their most creative years in low-paid training for jobs that are in scarce supply. Jessica Polka, research fellow in systems biology, is quoted.
Wesley Boyd, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, participated in a radio interview about the U.S. Senate committee’s report detailing the techniques the CIA used when it interrogated suspects in the years after the attacks of September 11.
