Researchers from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School found that male cancer survivors who burned more than 12,600 kjoules each week had a 48 percent decreased risk of dying over a 15-year period, compared with male cancer survivors who burned fewer than 2,100 kjoules a week.
Patrick Purdon, assistant professor of anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, examines what happens to the brain while under anesthesia. With the help of his colleague Emery Brown, the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, Purdon explains the strange electrical signature they discovered, and why it just may be that sought-after indicator of when a brain is truly, totally, definitely unconscious.
Aggressive care for head injury can keep some patients alive and maximize the odds of recovery by preventing further damage. Even so, treatment often remains elusive – an invasive, hit-or-miss process that requires months or years of rehabilitation with uncertain results. Brian Walcott, clinical fellow in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
People who give blood or other tissues for research should be able to track their use through the scientific process to see the data their activities or samples generate, Harvard University scientists said. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, and Jeantine Lunshof, visiting fellow in genetics, were coauthors of a new policy paper.
A USA TODAY examination of a new study of the controversial sports supplement Craze finds little proof of safety, and one of the main authors is a doctor who has been disciplined in two states. Research by Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, is cited.
