For years, virtually every new mother has been sent home from the hospital with a gift bag full of free product samples, including infant formula. Now health authorities and breast-feeding advocates are leading a nationwide effort to ban formula samples. Melissa Bartick, HMS instructor in medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance and Rachel Freedman, HMS instructor in medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are quoted.
A researcher named Hisashi Moriguchi claims to have run a clinical trial at HMS in which cardiac muscle cells were grown from induced pluripotent stem cells, and transplanted into six US patients with severe heart failure. Moriguchi has no current affiliation with Harvard.
Mitchell Rabkin, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, coauthored this opinion piece about the ailing fee-for-service model that could be replaced by salaried-physician groups working within a fixed budget.
Boston hospital officials say a new policy on beverages is helping create a healthier hospital, sets a good example and provides choices to patients and staff. Shari Nethersole, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
Franz C. von Lichtenberg, HMS professor of pathology, emeritus, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, died on Sept. 16 in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at the age of 92.
Roche, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline are to join forces with HMS, the Mayo Clinic and others to improve medical education and accelerate the early identification of victims.
