Lecia V. Sequist, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this post about lung cancer. She explains how it is the deadliest cancer, responsible for more than 25 percent of all cancer deaths. It kills roughly twice as many women as breast cancer, and almost three times as many men as prostate cancer.
A local nonprofit in San Francisco is raising funds for a Harvard study to find out whether lung cancer can be inherited because of a gene mutation. Geoffrey Oxnard, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.
During the last few decades the average American has lost an hour and a half of sleep per night. Sleep researchers at Harvard say the workplace is suffering to the tune of $63 billion a year as a result of insomnia, and all the health and productivity problems that go with it. Russell Sanna, executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at HMS, is quoted.
The hunt is on for 100,000 British volunteers to post their genetic information online in the name of science as a North American open-access DNA project arrives in Europe. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, who first launched a U.S. version of the project in 2005, is quoted.
In a paper published last week, researchers at HMS shed light on a potentially critical factor in cancer development: the massive genomic abnormalities long observed in cancer cells. Stephen Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, led the team.
A new study conducted by researchers from HMS and Boston Children’s Hospital’s Division of Allergy and Immunology has discovered a treatment method for peanut allergies. Dale Umetsu, the Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics at HMS and Boston Children’s Hospital, is the lead author of the study and Rima Rachid, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is a co-author.
It’s a question that impacts our physical health, our mental health and health systems throughout the world: What causes us to overeat? Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health; Dariush Mozaffarian, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Michael Rich, HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, are quoted.
Barack Obama announced his BRAIN Initiative in April. Ever since, neuroscientists have been scrambling to work out what it actually is. Van Wedeen, HMS associate professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted
You’re groggy, dizzy even. You can’t see straight and you can’t keep your eyes (or your mind) focused on the screen in front of you. Could sleeping too much be the problem? Russell Sanna, executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at HMS, is quoted.
