Jeffrey L. Brown, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, and Beth S. Meister, HMS clinical instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, who were volunteering in the medical tent at the Boston Marathon share their experiences.
Eli Lilly and Co plans this year to begin a new late-stage trial of solanezumab, its experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that failed in earlier testing to significantly slow progression of the memory-robbing disease. Brigham and Women’s Hospital is helping coordinate the three-year study.
Mythmaking can have beneficial effects. Research by Ted Kaptchuk, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Herbert Benson, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is cited.
A new class of cholesterol-fighting drugs could be coming to patients in the not-so-distant future, and experts say they could be a real game-changer in Americans’ battle to lower artery-clogging LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol. Elliott Antman, HMS associate dean for clinical and translational research and professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
HMS will cut 31 custodial contract jobs. The cuts, which will take effect on August 17, stem from the cancellation of the Medical School’s approximately six-and-a-half-year-old contract with American Cleaning Company, Inc., a Brighton-based subcontractor that services the Medical School.
In the latest study investigating the side effects of statins, researchers report that the best-selling drugs are relatively safe. Huseyin Naci, HMS visiting fellow in population medicine, is the lead author of the study. Research by Paul Ridker, the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is also cited.
Can belief in God predict how someone responds to mental health treatment? A recent study suggests it might. David H. Rosmarin, HMS instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is the lead author of the study.
Rafael Campo, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, just won a major international prize. It wasn’t for his excellence in internal medicine, or his decades of teaching, or his scholarship. It was for a poem.
Starting as soon as next month, patients who arrive with a traumatic brain injury to emergency departments at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Medical Center could be enrolled in a medical study, possibly without their consent. Elizabeth Hohmann, HMS associate professor of medicine and Eric Rosenthal, HMS instructor in neurology, both of Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
After the tragic crash of Flight 214 in San Francisco, experts are wondering if chest straps, like the ones now required in cars, would have further reduced passenger injuries. David King, HMS assistant professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
