Julie Silver, HMS assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, is included in BloombergBusinessweek’s most promising social entrepreneurs list for founding Oncology Rehab Partners, which trains doctors and therapists in cancer rehab.
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary will unveil a bold proposal next week that would reshape a twisting section of Storrow Drive and create three acres of new parkland on what are now parking lots.
Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, suggested to his neighbor, the mayor of Cambridge, that she consider restrictions on supersized sodas and sugary beverages like those recently proposed in New York City to combat obesity, which inspired Mayor Henrietta Davis to propose that her city study the issue.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and seven biopharmaceutical companies have announced the formation of the Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium. Jeffrey Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at HMS, spoke at the press conference.
Half of public employers and about one-third of private companies now offer plans that limit their workers’ access to expensive hospitals and doctors, but many are confused about how these plans work, according to a survey and focus groups commissioned by Boston Children’s Hospital.
MASS Design focuses on designing medical buildings with dignity — from Rwanda to Haiti to here at home. Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, is quoted.
Many doctors-in-training have gone to work with flu symptoms, ignoring the risks of passing on bugs to vulnerable patients, a new survey shows. Anupam Jena, a senior resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is quoted.
Is loneliness lethal? According to two new studies published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, living alone or feeling lonely can increase your chances of disability and early death. Research by Deepak L. Bhatt, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is cited.
Oklahoma State and Harvard Medical School are new to the most popular medical schools list —those that enrolled the highest percentages of accepted students.
Gary Ruvkun, HMS professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, was one of two Massachusetts researchers who will be awarded the 2012 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research from Johnson & Johnson, the company announced yesterday at the BIO International Convention in Boston.
