While we spend the most money trying to stave off death, we waste precious time we could have used to make life as good as it can be in our final years. Atul Gawande, Samuel O. Their Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
A new variation of a therapy used to treat X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome uses a genetically engineered virus to help the body create disease-fighting T-cells. David A. Williams, Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, coauthored the study.
The Harvard Innovation Lab will kick off the Health and Life Sciences Challenge that will award innovative solutions in the fields of healthcare and the life sciences next Tuesday. Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, is co-chair of the Challenge committee.
Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Florence Bourgeois, assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a senior study author.
Cancer treatments that genetically modify patients’ blood cells to target the disease have shown amazing results in clinical trials. Now drug companies and biotech’s must overcome big hurdles to get them into hospitals, including their potential cost. Daniel DeAngelo, associate professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.
A 2003 rule restricting the number of hours doctors-in-training can work each week didn’t affect the quality of care they provided once they were practicing independently, suggests a new study. Anupam Jena, assistant professor of health care policy in the Department of Health Care Policy, led the research.
The plight of postdocs has become a point of national discussion among senior scientists, as their struggles have come to be seen as symptoms of broader problems plaguing biomedical research. Marc Kirschner, John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology and head of the HMS Department of Systems Biology; and Kristin Krukenberg, research fellow in systems biology, are quoted.
