Men with restless legs syndrome (RLS) were more likely to die during an eight-year study than those without the condition, even after their age and other health problems were taken into account, researchers found. Xiang Gao, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
Soccer players who hit the ball with their head a lot don’t score as well on a memory test as players who head the ball less often, a new study finds. Inga Koerte, HMS visiting research fellow in psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
A new study of the gene activity of hundreds of individual cells from five patients’ deadly brain tumors adds yet another layer of complexity, revealing an enormous diversity of which genes are flipped on and off in cells in the same tumor. The study, published online in the journal Science Thursday, is a collaboration that crosses the boundary between medicine and science. Brad Bernstein, professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is one of the leaders of the study.
Here at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a black mouse lies on a miniature exam table, his tail dangling off the end. A plastic tube carries anesthetic to his nose and mouth. He is asleep. The research of Pier Paolo Pandolfi, HMS professor of medicine at BIDMC, is described.
An interview with Rafael Campo, HMS associate professor of medicine, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a member of the faculty of the Masters in Fine Arts program at Lesley University. Campo recently won the international Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Children and young adults take longer to recover from a concussion if they’ve suffered a previous hit to the head within a year or repeated blows at any time, according to a new study. Matthew Eisenberg, a study author and HMS instructor in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital is quoted.
In July 2011, after more than two decades of impassioned debate, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduced the maximum allowable shift for the least experienced doctors from 30 straight hours to 16. A recent spate of studies questions whether the rules have made the situation worse. Christopher Landrigan, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers shows that the risk of having a heart attack is significantly higher following an outburst of anger — the more intense the outburst, the higher the risk.
When Aerosmith looked for an organist to play like a “drunken church lady,” they could have taken their pick from hundreds of willing candidates. But only one was also a Ph.D-wielding expert on how beta amyloid accumulates in the brain. Rudy Tanzi, the Kennedy Professor of Neuroscience at HMS and Massachusetts General Hospital, is the organist the band went with for their latest album.
