The Autism Consortium, based at the Countway Library at HMS, is the first beneficiary of an unusual deal struck by U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren to discourage third-party campaign ads.
In an effort to respond to what one hospital executive termed a “primary care crisis,” two Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals will shift their pay structure so that doctors are paid in part based on the number of patients they treat and the complexity of those patients’ conditions. Joseph P. Frolkis, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Eric M. Weil, HMS instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
Kiran Gupta, HMS clinical fellow in medicine, writes about her experiences as a resident in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Robert D. Truog, HMS professor of medical ethics & anaesthesia (pediatrics), recently participated in a Q&A about transparency between patients and doctors, the challenges to this ideal and the future of the patient-doctor relationship.
According to the latest iteration of the PharmFree Scorecard from the American Medical Student Association, 67% of schools got A or B grades in 2011-12. HMS received an A.
B. Price Kerfoot, HMS associate professor of surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has discovered a technique called spaced repetition to help increase knowledge retention in HMS students and devised a simple digital tool to make engaging in spaced repetition almost effortless.
Women who use tanning salons have a somewhat increased risk of skin cancer, according to a new study that adds to evidence that baking in a tan bed can be as bad as baking under the sun. Jiali Han, HMS associate professor of dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is one of the researchers.
Scientists have found a way to trick the immune system into accepting organs from a mismatched, unrelated organ donor, a finding that could help patients avoid a lifetime of drugs to prevent rejection of the donated organ. Tatsuo Kawai, HMS associate professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote a commentary on the new study.
Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, is one of more than three dozen firms hastening to push the cost of sequencing an entire human genome below $1,000. The work of George Church, HMS professor of genetics, is mentioned.
As part of National Sleep Awareness Week, the National Sleep Foundation’s annual campaign to remind people about the importance and value of sleep, The Huffington Post and The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health collaborated on a live webcast event titled “Fighting the Clock: How America’s Sleep Deficit is Damaging Longterm Health.” Charles Czeisler, the Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Sleep Medicine; Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy at HSPH; Susan Redline, the Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine and Frank Hu, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, participated in the panel.
Researchers at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center are embarking on an unusual alliance that will combine the research strengths of both organizations to yield new treatments and insights into two highly lethal cancers. Jeffrey Clark, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
