Orfeu Marcello Buxton, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been answering reader questions about sleep deficiency. This is part 3 of the Ask an Expert section.
The demand for quick and convenient consultation with doctors has produced plenty of options. Ateev Mehrotra, HMS associate professor of health care policy, is quoted.
A structured exercise program may be as good or better than frequently prescribed drugs for some common cardiovascular ailments, a large meta-analysis has found. Huseyin Naci, visiting fellow in population medicine at HMS, is the lead author.
Hebrew SeniorLife is exploring an affiliation with a Peabody senior services organization called Aviv Centers for Living. The move signals a strategy by the Boston-based senior care organization to expand its geographic footprint to mirror that of its partners, namely Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Partners HealthCare and New England Baptist Hospital.
With the increasing practice of telecommuting, the author writes about why we’ll always be attached in some way to a company office. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is quoted.
LEDs, which produce more light for each watt of energy and last far longer, are gaining wider adoption in airports, stores and many other places. Steven W. Lockley, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time in cells. James E. Rothman of Yale University is one of the winners. Rothman was a student at HMS and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976.
Accusations of diagnostic mistakes — alleged errors tied to failing to make an appropriate referral to a specialist, rushing through a physical exam, or neglecting to follow up on an abnormal test result — are by far the most common reason that Massachusetts primary care doctors get sued for malpractice, a new study found. Gordon Schiff, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
Survivors of pediatric brain tumors lean on each other for support as they live into adulthood. Cori Liptak, HMS instructor in psychology and Peter Manley, HMS instructor in pediatrics, both of Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, are quoted.
