The death of a cotton-top tamarin monkey at a Harvard Medical School facility on Sunday has cast an intense spotlight on a controversial area of biomedical research that has contributed to major advances but also aroused suspicion because of the secrecy that generally surrounds the operations of primate research facilities.
The interim director of the New England Primate Research Center, Fred Wang, HMS professor of medicine, announced his resignation in an e-mail sent early this morning.
Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH, says that Americans have wasted decades replacing fats with sugar, salt, and processed flour, and gained nothing from it except a few more inches around the middle.
Trustees at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton have voted to negotiate a merger with Massachusetts General Hospital, an alliance that would extend the reach of Mass. General beyond Eastern Massachusetts.
Daily doses of a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease significantly improved function in severely brain-injured people thought to be beyond the reach of treatment, scientists reported, providing the first rigorous evidence to date that any therapy reliably helps such patients. Joseph T. Giacino, HMS associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, led the research team.
Harvard Medical School suspended new experiments at its New England Primate Research Center after a cotton top tamarin monkey died Sunday. It was the fourth monkey to die there under questionable circumstances in less than two years.
For more than 50 years, it has been widely believed that woman are born with all the eggs they are ever going to have. Now, one research team at Massachusetts General Hospital says they’ve found a way to take human stem cells from ovarian tissue and produce early-stage eggs. Jonathan Tilly, HMS professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the research.
A single large dose of vitamin D may help women with painful periods feel more comfortable and skip painkillers, Italian researchers report. JoAnn E. Manson, the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-wrote a commentary accompanying the study.
For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they’ve discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs. Jonathan Tilly, HMS professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead researcher.
