Grant may help researchers prepare a clinical-grade HIV antibody. Dan Barouch, professor of medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is leading the research.
Eugene Beresin, professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Steven Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this opinion piece about thoughtfully talking to children about Ebola.
Boston Children’s Hospital is treating four children with muscle weakness or paralysis that began soon after they were sickened by a respiratory virus, doctors said Tuesday. Mark Gorman, assistant professor of neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
Americans have a lingering discomfort with the topic of miscarriage, although 15 percent of pregnant women will experience a miscarriage this year. Alice Domar, associate clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Even if you can’t hear low-frequency sounds, it doesn’t mean these sounds have no effect on your ears. M. Charles Liberman, the Harold F. Schuknecht Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, is quoted.
Colon cancer patients who are overweight or obese when diagnosed appear to face a slightly higher risk for developing a second weight-related cancer, new research suggests. Andrew Chan, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
An online database, required by the recent health care law, provides a detailed look at the payments health care professionals receive from drug and medical device companies and is part of a broader push for transparency. Proponents say such disclosures are an important tool to help limit drug and device makers’ influence on doctors, but the website is being questioned by the industry, which says that technical problems and data inaccuracies limit its value. Reisa Sperling, professor of neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is mentioned.
In the last few decades, the number of students choosing to supplement their M.D. degrees with others in different disciplines is climbing, and more schools have begun offering joint Ph.D., MPH, and MA programs. Sachin Jain, lecturer on health care policy; and Vinod Nambudiri and Alexi Nazem, both clinical fellows in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
On Tuesday, the federal government is expected to release details of payments to doctors by every pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in the country. The information is being made public under a provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of research at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital is quoted.
