With personalized medicine becoming a key focus for medical research and diagnosing conditions, Partners HealthCare System, the region’s largest hospital and physicians network, is positioning itself to become a national leader in the emerging field. Research in the lab of Heidi L. Rehm, HMS assistant professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is featured. Anne Klibanski, the Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine and associate dean for clinical and translational research at Harvard Catalyst, is also quoted.
A new digital 3-D mammogram – called breast tomosynthesis – has shown the most promise in dramatically reducing the number of women called back for suspicious-looking findings that turn out to be benign and detecting tumors not revealed on the traditional 2-D X-ray. Elizabeth Rafferty, HMS instructor in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the study leader.
An independent analysis has faulted a freezer’s digital controls for the loss of 147 brain samples that defrosted earlier this year at the Harvard-affiliated Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital.
In a new book, Super Brain, authors Deepak Chopra and Rudolf Tanzi, the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, explore broad discoveries that make it possible to improve your brain.
A hockey concussion study published Friday includes in its findings an intriguing element – possible radiological evidence of brain trauma caused by subconcussive blows. Martha E. Shenton, HMS professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Inga K.Koerte, HMS visiting research fellow in psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, were on the research team.
Doctors should routinely ask adult patients whether they feel stressed, says the lead author of a recent report on stress management in primary care. Aditi Nerurkar, HMS instructor in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the lead author, and Russell S. Phillips, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, is a co-author of the study.
Boston Children’s Hospital trustees have reached inside the organization to name Sandra L. Fenwick, an operations whiz who has been the driving force behind reining in costs, as the next chief executive of the nation’s largest pediatric research institution.
Engineers have found a new and unexpected use for the code of life—as a commonplace building material that can be used to fashion precise 3D structures, ranging from miniature smiley faces to cubes. Peng Yin, HMS assistant professor of systems biology, is one of the leaders of the work. George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, is also quoted.
