Taking aspirin every day may significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent tumors from spreading, according to two new studies. Andrew T. Chan, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the co-author of a comment published with the articles.
A survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health for the Massachusetts Medical Society found that only 29 percent of doctors said they were ready to enter into global payment arrangements, and less than half believe that global payments will reduce medical spending.
Arnold Relman, HMS professor of medicine, emeritus, and Marcia Angell, HMS senior lecturer on social medicine, are profiled for their movement against for-profit medicine.
Robert Martuza, the William and Elizabeth Sweet Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been investigating how to weaken viruses to be used as cancer-fighters.
What is an incidentalome? In a new paper, Robert Green, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, says it is a finding that is “incidental,” because it turned up even though you weren’t looking for it. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is credited with coining the term “incidentalome.”
In a new study, a group of researchers looked at the records of patient visits to a sample of office-based physicians to find out whether doctors with electronic access to imaging results ordered more tests than doctors without them. Stephen Soumerai, HMS professor of population medicine, is quoted.
