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Judith Edersheim, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this article about the trail of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokahar Tsarnaev.

Primary care physicians are more likely to recommend careers as nurse practitioners than as physicians

Annual event honors noted physician, teacher, guide and friend

Honors work in addiction medicine

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.

Partnership will help improve senior health and reduce costs

Sometimes the body stops “listening” to insulin signals, resulting in insulin resistance; this epigenomic study reveals new clues to why.

Therapy combination yields reduction in HER2+ breast cancer recurrence

Robert C. Green, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, participated in an interview about privacy and genetic information.

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.