The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite candidates to submit applications for two fellowships related to autism research.
The largest clinical study of its kind is revealing new insights into the causes of Crohn’s disease, a periodic inflammation of the intestines. The research, which involved 668 children, shows that numbers of some beneficial bacteria in the gut decrease in Crohn’s patients, while the number of potentially harmful bacteria increases. Ramnik Xavier, the Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the study.
Last Thursday, state-of-the-art vans from Harvard Medical, Dana Farber, New England Optometry – including the HMS Family Van – were on display in Mattapan as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement kicked off its three-city mobile health tour of Boston, New York and the District of Columbia. Nancy E. Oriol, dean for students at HMS, is the founder of the Family Van.
Twenty-five years have passed since a paper first introduced the concept of the World Wide Web. How do Americans think about the Internet and its impact on their lives? Catherine Steiner-Adair, research associate in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, was a guest on the program.
A Japanese research institution plans to make an announcement Friday about its investigation of two highly controversial stem cell studies authored by Boston and Japanese scientists.
