There’s a food movement afoot: Eating well to look, feel, and perform our very best is hot. David Mischoulon, HMS associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Boston again drew the most National Institutes of Health funding of any city in the nation in 2012, receiving total grants of $1.78 billion. Three local institutions — Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School — ranked among the top 25 recipients of NIH funds last year.
To cut through some of the mystery of mental disorders, which largely are defined by how people behave, scientists are seeking clues lurking in blood and saliva. The latest initiative is a clinical trial of a blood test that may distinguish between kids with autism and those with other developmental delays. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, led some of this research.
People who have had common skin cancers may be at an increased risk of getting cancer again in their life, according to a new study. Jiali Han, HMS associate professor of dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the research.
Mark Boguski, HMS associate professor of pathology at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, participated in a conversation about IBM’s Watson, and using it to improve the state of human medicine.
