As part of an ongoing effort to make care more transparent, clinicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have begun posting the mental health notes in patients’ electronic medical records, allowing the patients immediate access to the summaries at home. Michael Kahn, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Pamela Peck, assistant professor of psychology, both of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Gregg Meyer, lecturer on medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
Even among high school football players who’ve never had a concussion, a small preliminary study suggests that changes can still occur to their brains within the course of a single season. Lyle Micheli, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. Seth Berkowitz, research fellow in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author.
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as costs plummet — to $1,000 or less for a full genome, down from more than $1 million less than a decade ago. But many people are avoiding the tests because of a major omission in the 2008 federal law that bars employers and health insurers from seeking the results of genetic testing. Research by Robert C. Green, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Steven M. Hersch, professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is cited.
The author writes about the ties between companies and academic medical centers. Dennis Ausiello, the Jackson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is mentioned.
Most researchers think Alzheimer’s disease is caused by the build-up of beta amyloid. But over 100 drugs targeting it have failed. Have they been focusing on the wrong protein all this time? Research by Reisa Sperling, professor of neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is cited.
Several trends are driving the expansion of health care into retail stores — including pharmacies, big-box stores and grocery stores — and some of those trends will be accelerated by the Affordable Care Act. Research by Ateev Mehrotra, associate professor of health care policy, is cited.
Annie Brewster, instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this post about a patient diagnosed with Pulmonary Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, otherwise known as LAM, a rare, chronic, progressive lung disease in which the lungs fill up with cysts.
Families fighting to get approval for a new drug that treats a fatal disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy may glean some hope from the fact that federal drug regulators have bent to pressure from patient advocates in the past, according to Aaron Kesselheim, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
While it’s nothing new that items are strategically placed in the grocery store, a new study shows consumers are more likely to feel brand loyalty with cereal characters that look them in the eye. Susan Linn, instructor in psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
