As criticism mounts over the National Football League’s failure to do enough to prevent repeat head injuries and their lasting cognitive effects, the NFL was expected to announce Monday that the league would convert to an electronic health record system next season with software provided by Westborough-based eClinicalWorks. John Halamka, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and HMS professor of medicine, and Ashish Jha, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
Albert Einstein has long been considered one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. During his life and since his death, people everywhere have wondered how one man could have possessed such genius. Now, scientists may have uncovered a clue within the physicist’s unusual brain. Albert Galaburda, the Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image. In a new study, more than 40 percent of boys in middle school and high school said they regularly exercised with the goal of increasing muscle mass. Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids. Harrison Pope, HMS professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is quoted.
Sleep deprivation can cause serious health and cognitive problems in humans. In short, it can make us fat, sick and stupid. But why do humans need so much sleep? Robert Stickgold, HMS associate professor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was a guest on the show.
People who have recurring symptoms of Lyme disease after taking a full course of antibiotics most likely have a new infection, according to research that undercuts the theory that the illness can relapse. Allen Steere, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote in an editorial that accompanied the study.
Hospitals and the government are devising plans to ensure an uninterrupted supply of critical medications after the disclosure of numerous problems with sterility procedures at Ameridose LLC, a major drug supplier that suspended operations after the national meningitis outbreak.
