Financial exploitation of seniors is expected to grow as the population ages, but advocates are trying to lessen the harm. Rebecca Brendel, assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
A new study conducted by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital tracked 335 student athletes who were treated for concussions incurred on the playing field. They found that those who took the most time off from tasks that required a lot of thinking had the quickest recovery from headaches, dizziness, nausea, and other concussion symptoms. William Meehan, assistant professor of pediatrics, is the coauthor of the study.
No matter what products they introduce or new spokesmen they put in commercials, diet companies are facing two major obstacles. One is growing competition from digital upstarts that give away their products for free, and the other is the age-old problem that people typically fail to keep off the pounds and eventually quit dieting. George Blackburn, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Mindfulness meditation may be useful in battles against anxiety, depression and pain, according to a fresh look at past research. Allan Goroll, professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an editorial accompanying the new study.
Articles in this series will examine new efforts to understand how the brain works, and the scientists behind them. R. Clay Reid, HMS professor of neurobiology and also a member of the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle, is quoted.
Researchers who have not even hit thirty yet have played key roles in some of the biggest scientific discoveries of the past few years. Raghu Chivukula, clinical fellow in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital; Cigall Kadoch; assistant professor of pediatric oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Aleksandar Kostic, postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard; and Zirui Song and Marc Succi, both HMS students, were named in the 30 Under 30 list. George M. Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, was one of the judges.
Paula A. Johnson, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, authored this opinion piece in The Boston Globe about the importance of recognizing health differences between men and women in research.
CBS News chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook and Rudolph Tanzi, the Kennedy Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, joined “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss the major medical stories of the week.
Ten years after completion of the Human Genome Project made it possible to paint a full genetic portrait of anyone in the world, sequencing remains far outside the mainstream. Research by George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, is cited. Robert C. Green, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is also quoted.
A conversation with the biogeneticist Eric S. Lander, HMS professor of systems biology and founding director of the Broad Institute, about how genetic advances are transforming medical treatment.
