A former research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has been found by federal authorities to have fabricated and falsified data in a scientific manuscript that was accepted by a journal but was withdrawn before publication.
Sanjiv Chopra, HMS faculty dean for continuing education and professor of medicine, is profiled about his new book, “Leadership by Example: The Ten Key Principles of all Great Leaders” and about his role as head of the HMS CME department.
The DNA molecule serves as the code of life, but it also serves as handy building material for nanoscale structures — and newly published research shows how patterns as complex as letters, numbers and smiley faces can be created far more cheaply and quickly than previously thought. Peng Yin, HMS assistant professor of systems biology and also a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, led the research with Bryan Wei, a postdoctoral fellow and Mingjie Dai, a graduate student.
Mary McNaughton-Collins, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, was recently a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss the recommendation from a federal task force against routine use of the PSA test, a common method of screening for prostate cancer.
Treatment of early-stage prostate cancer can also result inimproved quality of life for a subgroup of men who suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms, according to a new study. Martin G. Sanda, HMS professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the senior author.
Hyper-busy, working Americans are finding it difficult to carve out time for the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep. A study by Orfeu Buxton, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is featured.
Regular aspirin use, which doctors have long recommended for heart attack and stroke prevention, also may help reduce the risk of some forms of skin cancer, a new study suggests. Jennifer Y. Lin, HMS instructor in dermatology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.
While many desk-bound, cubicle-dwelling Americans struggle with weight and fitness problems, a distinct subset is diving into a brand of exercise often advertised as military-based and that might seem extreme to outsiders. Thomas J. Gill, HMS associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
Helen Riess, HMS associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, participated in a Q&A about a study showing that explicitly teaching empathy to doctors-in-training improves their interactions with patients.
