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Should supplements containing DMAA be banned from the market? A Harvard researcher says yes. May 8, 2012 Pieter Cohen, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, published a…
$11.6m grants go to Boston programs serving elders, homeless May 8, 2012 Three Boston organizations, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes…
Herbal supplement may prevent dangerous blood clots May 8, 2012 Fruits and vegetables high in a flavanoid known as rutin, may actually prevent life-threatening…
How do docs prescribe kids’ meds? Guess May 8, 2012 Harvard researchers reported that four out of every five children hospitalized in the U.S. are…
Delving into female memory loss May 7, 2012 Researchers are taking middle-age memory lapses more seriously. The good news is that they have…
Minorities still do not feel completely comfortable in medicine May 7, 2012 A recent essay on the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) trainees and…
Two Harvard physicians to receive Starzl Prize on Wednesday May 7, 2012 David Sachs, the Paul S. Russell/Warner Lambert Professor of Surgery and A. Benedict Cosimi, the…
Parents’ depression linked to problems in children May 7, 2012 A parent’s depression can be linked to all kinds of problems, even in the lives of older children…
When practicing on patients can have real consequences May 7, 2012 Ilana Yurkiewicz, a first-year HMS student, reflects on her experience in a hospital setting.
A regime’s tight grip on AIDS May 7, 2012 Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest AIDS epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate…
Harvard study swaps bad fat for good in effort on obesity May 6, 2012 Harvard scientists gave white fat, which stores energy, the calorie-burning properties of brown…
Massachusetts moves toward health-care price controls. Is America next? May 6, 2012 On Friday, the Massachusetts House unveiled new legislation to control rising health care costs. A…
