NASA has named eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years — including Jessica U. Meir, an HMS assistant professor of anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
You’ve likely heard about the link between sugar consumption and type 2 diabetes. But fresh research ties another dietary pattern to increased risk of the disease, too: eating too much red meat. Frank Hu, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is one of the co-authors of the report. David Nathan, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts
General Hospital, is also quoted.
Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, participated in The Wall Street Journal’s The Experts section to answer the question: If you could tell the average American to make one dietary change, what would it be?
When scientists vie for limited federal funding to support their research, they know their proposals will be evaluated based on scientific merits, but other factors come into play, too: a few years ago, the National Institutes of Health asked reviewers to evaluate the overall impact and significance of the work being proposed. Marc Kirschner, the John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology and chair
of the Department of Systems Biology, has written an editorial about the two criteria.
Boston Children’s Hospital is announcing Monday that it has started the world’s first hand transplant program for youngsters, with the goal of restoring limbs to victims of devastating infections, fires, or accidents. Amir Taghinia, HMS assistant professor of surgery and William Harmon, HMS professor of pediatrics, both of Boston Children’s Hospital; and Bohdan Pomahac, HMS associate professor of surgery of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
Black and Hispanic children with autism are markedly less likely than children from white families to receive specialty care for complications tied to the disorder, a new study finds. Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, HMS clinical fellow in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author.
Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly shortchange themselves on sleep. A study by Eva S. Schernhammer, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is cited.
Reisa Sperling, HMS professor of neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is highlighted in this issue about Alzheimer’s researchers seeking a new approach. Groopman is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Donald Berwick, a former controversial figure in the Obama administration who served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and an HMS lecturer on health care policy, said he will run for governor of Massachusetts next year.
