Ishani Ganguli, an HMS graduate and now a clinical fellow in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, writes about preparing to supervise medical students.
Taking aspirin every day may significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent tumors from spreading, according to two new studies. Andrew T. Chan, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the co-author of a comment published with the articles.
A survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health for the Massachusetts Medical Society found that only 29 percent of doctors said they were ready to enter into global payment arrangements, and less than half believe that global payments will reduce medical spending.
Applying vaccines to the upper layers of the skin could stimulate a different and more powerful immune system response than the traditional approach of injecting a vaccine into muscle, according to a growing body of research by Boston scientists. Thomas Kupper, chair of the Department of Dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the new study.
Arnold Relman, HMS professor of medicine, emeritus, and Marcia Angell, HMS senior lecturer on social medicine, are profiled for their movement against for-profit medicine.
Robert Martuza, the William and Elizabeth Sweet Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been investigating how to weaken viruses to be used as cancer-fighters.
What is an incidentalome? In a new paper, Robert Green, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, says it is a finding that is “incidental,” because it turned up even though you weren’t looking for it. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is credited with coining the term “incidentalome.”
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is teaming up with more than 50 hospitals and 16,500 doctors across the state to offer Massachusetts employers and their workers a 10 percent savings on health insurance by forming what they call a “focused network’’ of medical care groups.
In a new study, a group of researchers looked at the records of patient visits to a sample of office-based physicians to find out whether doctors with electronic access to imaging results ordered more tests than doctors without them. Stephen Soumerai, HMS professor of population medicine, is quoted.
