While Boston boasts some of the best hospitals in the country, and is often on the cutting-edge of medical technology, it is also home to very bright, talented medical professionals. Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at HMS and Eleftheria (Terry) Maratos-Flier, research scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and several HMS-affiliated faculty members are highlighted.
A research team led by Douglas P. Kiel, HMS professor of medicine at Hebrew SeniorLife, has been ordered by federal health regulators to more clearly explain to elderly nursing home residents the serious risks they faced during a study testing how to prevent hip fractures.
A number of studies have shown that antipsychotics raise the risk of death in patients with dementia, but a new, large study suggests that the risk differs substantially depending on the drug. Krista Huybrechts, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is an author of the study.
HMS has launched a Global Health Delivery course in conjunction with the Rwanda Ministry of Health to address the global burden of disease and its complex inter-related social determinants. Agnes Binagwaho is the minister of health and HMS senior lecturer on social medicine.
Women who have had migraine headaches are more likely than other women to develop depression, according to a new study. Tobias Kurth, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is one of the researchers.
Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s minister of health and HMS senior lecturer on social medicine, wrote an opinion piece about the launch of the Global Health Delivery in Rwanda course in partnership with the country’s ministry of health and HMS.
American Well, a privately held Boston company that uses technology to bring health care services into the homes and workplaces of patients, said that it plans to collaborate with Joslin Diabetes Center to make Joslin’s diabetes expertise more accessible to patients nationwide.
Lowell E. Schnipper, the Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Medicine at HMS, has been named clinical director at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cancer Center. Schnipper had been chief of hematology and oncology in the Department of Medicine since 1974.
Commissioner Margaret Hamburg of the US Food and Drug Administration announced today that her agency has taken several steps toward solving shortages of two critical cancer drugs.
Martin Pollak, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, uses mice to study the genetic causes of kidney disease, specifically, to unravel why kidney disease is far more common among African-Americans than other ethnic groups.
Hospitalizations for asthma have been dramatically cut by a program that helps families reduce the conditions that trigger attacks, saving $1.46 in hospital care for every $1 spent on prevention, according to a Children’s Hospital Boston study. Elizabeth R. Woods, HMS professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, is the lead author.
