Staying regular on the road can be a problem for many summertime travelers. Changes in diet and time zone, not to mention unfamiliar foods, can wreak havoc on the gastrointestinal system. Anthony Lembo, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Fall in love with your baby. Enjoy every second with the little one. Trust your own instincts when rearing your child, according to parenting experts. Judith Palfrey, the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and T. Berry Brazelton, HMS clinical professor of pediatrics, emeritus, both of Boston Children’s Hospital, are quoted.
Pediatric surgeons are developing a new strategy to tackle one of cardiology’s most challenging congenital defects: babies born with only one heart ventricle. The doctors are enlisting the body’s own regenerative powers in an effort to grow the missing ventricle or strengthen the remaining one. Sitaram Emani, HMS assistant professor of surgery, is leading the effort at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Cooling patients who have suffered cardiac arrest can lessen damage to the brain; now researchers are looking for other ways to use induced hypothermia. Benjamin Scirica, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Executives at the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline were warned nearly two years ago about critical problems with the way the company conducted research at its drug development center in China, exposing it to potential financial risk and regulatory action, an internal audit found. Eric G. Campbell, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Jerry Avorn, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
No one yet knows how many cases of Alzheimer’s can be prevented by healthier living. But without treatments to change the course of the disease, researchers believe prevention may be key to avoiding its memory and quality of life challenges. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, HMS professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
In a new paper, a team of researchers from HMS, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied posts on Twitter to examine how the speed and content of tweets compared with communication over more official channels. Alicia Quesnel, HMS instructor in otology and laryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, is leading the follow-up of patients with hearing loss and Rumi Chunara, HMS instructor in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is one of the authors of the new study.
Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, participated in a recent discussion in The Wall Street Journal’s The Experts section about whether doctors should communicate with their patients via email.
The mice were eating their usual chow and exercising normally, but they were getting fat anyway. The reason: researchers had deleted a gene that acts in the brain and controls how quickly calories are burned. Even though they were consuming exactly the same number of calories as lean mice, they were gaining weight. Joseph Majzoub, the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at HMS and chief of endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital, is the lead author of the study.
