Daily supplements of selenium or vitamin E don’t seem to protect against the development of age-related cataracts among men, a new study indicates. William Christen, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the lead author.
A new study reports that the modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years. David Reich, professor of genetics, is quoted.
Professors, administrators, and learning and teaching specialists gathered at the third annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference to consider the this year’s theme of “Engagement and Distance.” Trudy Van Houten, clinical instructor in radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is mentioned.
Four Boston doctors are heading for Ebola-stricken Liberia on a mission to stop the death toll and beat back the epidemic. Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Joia Mukherjee, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Rajesh Panjabi, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Corrado Cancedda, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are mentioned.
The Ebola outbreak, which public health officials privately fret could turn into a global pandemic, carries with it a quiet riddle: while West Africa ineptly focuses on prevention, virtually no one has focused on care. Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, is mentioned.
Natalie Stavas, clinical fellow in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, authored this blog post about the effects of excessive media exposure on children.
There are many kinds of cancer, but treatments have typically combatted them in one way only: by attempting to destroy the cancerous cells. A more recent approach, immunotherapy, co-opts the body’s immune system into attacking and eradicating the tumor. Jerome Groopman, Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authored this article, and William Kaelin, professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was quoted.
