Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Joia Mukherjee, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, coauthored this opinion piece about their recent experience treating Ebola patients in Africa.
Recovery from surgery can be quick and relatively painless for some, but a months-long slog for others. Now, researchers say they may be able figure out ahead of time how long a patient will be laid up after an operation, by looking at their immune cells. Ronald Tompkins, Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
