High fiber diet linked to lower Crohn's disease risk August 20, 2013 A recent study found that consuming fiber long-term was associated with a lower risk of developing…
Can crowdsourcing find the right diagnosis? August 19, 2013 A new start-up, Crowdmed, operates off of the premise that crowd power can be applied to medical…
Babies in developed countries getting bigger August 18, 2013 News stories of babies born weighing 13 pounds or more are common in the developed world, but…
Glowing Proteins: More Than a Marker August 15, 2013 Researchers transform fluorescent proteins into a scaffold for manipulating genes
Seeding Global Health August 15, 2013 Public-private partnership helps build sustainable health systems in resource limited settings
A powerful tool in the doctor's toolkit August 15, 2013 The author wrote about her experience with the placebo effect and cites research by Ted Kaptchuk…
Googling 'depression': Clues, but few answers August 15, 2013 Richard S. Schwartz, HMS associate clinical professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital and…
Project Success Opens Doors August 14, 2013 HMS Summer Research Internship Program sparks interest in science
Unhidden traits: Genomic data privacy debates heat up August 14, 2013 We shield social security numbers, conceal credit cards and shred sensitive records. Now it’s time…
Partners hospitals, doctors top health-payment list August 14, 2013 Nearly one-third of all the money that Massachusetts insurers spent on acute hospital care last…
Prostate cancer aggressiveness may not change with time, study suggests August 14, 2013 The aggressiveness of a prostate cancer tumor – meaning how fast it’s growing, and how much it’s…
Mouth microbe turns carcinogenic August 14, 2013 Two studies peg down how a bacterium indigenous to the oral cavity can contribute to the…
