How much or how little sleep you get may adversely affect your memory as you age, according to new research. Elizabeth Devore, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
Physician and best-selling author Deepak Chopra has an empowering message: You can actually modify your own genes through your actions and behaviors. Rudy Tanzi, the Kennedy Professor of Neuroscience at HMS and Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Boston Magazine has selected a list of visionaries, idealists, and thinkers among us whose insights are transforming the way we live, work, learn, and play—not only here in Boston, but around the world. Joseph Betancourt, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; Betsy Nabel, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; David Altshuler, professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Vivek Murthy, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are included. Jay Bradner, assistant professor of medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Geraldine Hamilton, senior staff scientist at the Wyss Institute, are cited under “The TEDx Effect.”
Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded a $600,000 government partnership grant to establish the first clinic in the state that will offer specialized care to human trafficking survivors. Wendy Macias, instructor in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Flaws in the way that dietary supplements are monitored and reported are causing potentially life-threatening delays in how long dangerous products linger on store shelves, according to Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. Cohen wrote an editorial recently about the issue.
Harvard’s smallest school, the School of Dental Medicine, aims to raise $8 million in the University’s capital campaign, the School announced at its campaign launch at the Harvard Club of Boston last Thursday. Wanda Mock, assistant dean for Development and Alumni Relations at the Dental School, is quoted.
A new study posed a scenario to Boston-area doctors about interpreting test results. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is one of the authors of the study.
In recent years, as pharmaceutical companies have halted sales of drugs used in executions, as legal challenges have mounted and medical groups have vowed to ostracize doctors who participate in sanctioned killings, states have found themselves winging it when it comes to carrying out lethal injections. David Waisel, associate professor of anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
