Women physician-scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts, researchers found, with a salary difference that over the course of a career could pay for a college education, a spacious house, or a retirement nest egg. JoAnn Manson, Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Several hundred people are expected to gather at Camp Harbor View on Moon Island in Boston Harbor Wednesday evening to toast outgoing Partners HealthCare Chairman Jack Connors.
Author Ronald Schouten, HMS associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, was interviewed on the Emily Rooney Show about his new book he co-authored called, “Almost a Psychopath.”
A freezer malfunction at McLean Hospital has severely damaged one-third of the world’s largest collection of autism brain samples, potentially setting back research on the disorder by years, scientists say. Francine Benes, the William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is quoted.
Lisa Wong, HMS clinical instructor in pediatrics at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, participated in a Q&A about her new book “Scales to Scalpels,’’ about the link between music and medicine.
Certain hospital sounds, such as electronic alarms, telephones and conversations, can wake patients up even at relatively low levels, creating an environment that may slow healing, according to a new study. Orfeu Buxton, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study. Jeffrey Ellenbogen, HMS assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-led the study.
Recent investigations of memory formation raise fascinating questions about how young children store and retrieve experiences and information. Charles Nelson, HMS professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
Today, 10 students will move into dorms at HMS, where they will live during an eight-week fellowship that will have them working side by side with top researchers from Harvard and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Barbara Bierer, HMS professor of medicine (pediatrics) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Chinweike Ukomadu, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
Orit Avni-Barron, HMS instructor in psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was a guest author for the CommonHealth blog about treating women who are pregnant and also have depression.
