The most important difference between the world today and 150 years ago isn’t airplane flight or nuclear weapons or the Internet. It’s lifespan. We used to live 35 or 40 years on average in the United States, but now we live almost 80. David Jones, the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at HMS, is quoted.
To learn more about MDMA, WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes spoke with John Halpern, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, who has studied the drug also known as “molly.”
When actress Valerie Harper announced that she had joined the latest cast of “Dancing with the Stars,” she told People magazine that she hopes it “might prove inspiring to people to see a 74-year-old woman with terminal cancer dancing.” Karen Fasciano, HMS instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.
The author reflects on what she learned when her son tore his A.C.L. Martha Murray, HMS associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
By early next year, parents of newborns at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will have the chance to participate in the first randomized study of the medical and ethical repercussions of sequencing the DNA of babies. Alan Beggs, the Sir Edwin and Lady Manton Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, co-leads the study with Robert Green, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Our hyperconnectivity is a huge problem, says Catherine Steiner-Adair, HMS research associate in psychology at McLean Hospital, who’s making headlines for her new book, The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age.
Female doctors earn an average of $56,000 less each year than male doctors, according to a new study, which found that gap hasn’t budged since the late 1980s. Anupam B. Jena, HMS assistant professor of health care policy, is the study’s senior author.
Insights into the puzzling disorder may come from a study of children with a rare genetic disease, according to researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital. Mustafa Sahin, HMS associate professor of neurology, is leading the clinical trial.
The new diabetes drug Onglyza has no effect, good or bad, on a patient’s risk for heart attacks, a new study finds. However, the researchers did find a surprising rise in hospitalizations for heart failure among those who took the medication compared to those who did not. Deepak Bhatt, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the co-principal investigator. Eugene Braunwald, the Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at HMS, is the study chairman.
