Some parents have been worried about giving their children pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, based on reports that children who take the drugs are more likely to develop asthma. But a new study suggests that the relationship may be little more than a statistical oversight. Augusto Litonjua, HMS assistant professor of medicine, and Joanne Sordillo, HMS instructor in medicine, both of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
A Swiss entrepreneur has given Harvard University $125 million for the second time in five years, to support a multidisciplinary bioengineering research institute that bears his name. The first $125 million, provided to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in 2009, was the largest single gift the university had ever received. Donald Ingber, founding director of the Wyss and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS, is quoted.
After a massive tornado ripped a path of devastating destruction through Moore, Okla., parents are once again faced with the task of talking to their children about a frightening event. Experts stress that there is no right or wrong way to have these conversations with your kids. There are, however, ways to make these discussions more meaningful. Jeffrey Brown, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is quoted.
Keith T. Flaherty, HMS associate professor of medicine, and his colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a more sophisticated formula for analyzing tumors to find their vulnerabilities. On Monday, the hospital will unveil a partnership with AstraZeneca to pair Flaherty’s computer analysis with the company’s growing library of drugs to identify combinations of treatments that would not otherwise have been considered.
If you underwent a genetic test for a heart condition, but the test also revealed that you have a high risk of colon cancer, would you want to know? Robert Green, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Bottling up emotions is thought to harm both mind and body, but a new study suggests that doing the opposite may be no better. Elizabeth Mostofsky, postdoctoral fellow with the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at HMS, is the author of the study.
Got bunions? You can thank your grandparents or parents for those, according to new research. Marian Hannan, HMS associate professor of medicine at Hebrew SeniorLife, is the researcher and editor-in-chief of the journal.
On the same day that Rhythm Pharmaceuticals presented data on its drug candidate to treat diabetic gastroparesis, it also announced results from a study it funded showing the condition is more common among diabetic patients in the U.S. than previously thought. Lee Kaplan, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, conducted the study.
Biology Professor Eric S. Lander, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, was awarded the 2012 Harvey Prize in a ceremony April 30 at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, for his contributions to the field of genomics.
