Like any other medication, drugs used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can be abused. Craig Surman, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
While age of puberty is decreasing, the number of girls entering puberty early is increasing: about 16 percent of girls enter puberty by the age of 7, and about 30 percent by the age of 8, according to a study and researchers are trying to understand why. William Crowley, the Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
A contest launched by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School to write software to analyze immune-system genes garnered more than 100 entries, including many that vastly outperformed existing programs. Eva Guinan, HMS associate professor of radiation oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and director of the Harvard Catalyst Linkages Program was one of the researchers and involved in setting up the contest. Ramy Arnaout, HMS assistant professor of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was also on the team.
Anupam B. Jena, HMS assistant professor of health care policy, coauthored this opinion piece about how many physicians maintain that fear of lawsuits significantly affects the practice of medicine, and that reform of the malpractice system is crucial for containing costs.
New research suggests that even if we can’t live a few hundred years, we may at least be able to reverse some of the degenerative effects of what scientists call the “normal aging process.” David Scadden, co-chair of the Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology at Harvard, was one of the researchers.
Steven Schlozman, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this blog post about being on hold with an insurance company to gain approval for a treatment that his patient needed.
In a striking settlement of a high-profile case, Carol Warfield, the Edward Lowenstein Distinguished Professor of Anaesthesia at HMS, who said she endured years of sexist treatment at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will collect $7 million — and will have the hospital’s pain clinic named in her honor.
Doctors who attended medical schools that limited gifts to students from pharmaceutical companies – sponsored lunches, for example – may be less susceptible to drug marketing, according to a new study. HMS’ policy of banning pharmaceutical representatives from visiting campus and companies not being allowed to sponsor student events, is cited.
