The magazine offers an hour-by-hour plan to improve sleep. Matt Bianchi, HMS assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a quasi-public state agency, announced Monday that about $9 million in grants are being allocated to Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School to renovate research labs.
Once a last resort for epilepsy because it was so difficult and risky, surgery is now a more viable option for patients of all ages. Joseph Madsen, HMS associate professor of surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital; Elizabeth Thiele, HMS professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Ann-Christine Duhaime, the Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
Eating walnuts may reduce the risk for Type 2 diabetes in women, a large new study concludes. Frank Hu, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author.
A newfangled drug candidate featuring an antibody that totes a tumor-killing toxin can knock down ovarian cancer in some patients. Joyce Liu, HMS instructor in medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was the lead researcher.
A new report provides insight into how a case of research misconduct was first detected and gives a sense of how the highly secretive investigations of serious, potentially career-ending allegations unfurl.
Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS, co-authored this piece about healthcare systems.
Pediatricians have much lower rates of malpractice claims and indemnity payments than other physicians, but similar rates of payments that exceed $1 million, according to an analysis of the malpractice claims of 40,916 physicians (1630 pediatricians) from 1991 to 2005. Anupam B. Jena, HMS assistant professor of health care policy, was one of the lead authors.
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, said that details about the new BRAIN initiative would be hammered out by a “dream team” of 15 scientists who will hold their first meeting at the end of the month. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, is quoted.
