Children who don’t conform to gender roles may be at greater risk of being abused, a study by Boston researchers found. The group of researchers included some from Harvard School of Public Health, Children’s Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
In their book “Your Medical Mind,’’ published last fall, doctors Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Pamela Hartzband, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, write about the complexity of advance directives and how hard it is to predict what we will really want as our days wind down.
Irving Kirsch, HMS lecturer on medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, suggests that the difference between the effect of a placebo and the effect of an antidepressant is minimal for most people.
To address the shortage of primary care doctors, new medical schools are opening with an emphasis on primary care and others are changing their curricula to boost the number of graduates interested in the field. Russell Phillips, one of the interim directors of the Center for Primary Care at HMS and chief of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Eric Lu, an HMS student, are quoted.
A Japanese biomedical scientist who was previously a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health has retracted three papers that were co-written with faculty at Harvard and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
