Suicide risk spikes in week after cancer diagnosis, study finds April 4, 2012 A new study has shown that the risk of suicide spikes in the weeks immediately following a cancer…
Transplant patient’s new face has thrived April 3, 2012 A year after Dallas Wiens received a face from an anonymous donor to replace the one he had lost…
Doctor sues MGH bosses over control of inventions April 3, 2012 Joseph A. Grocela, HMS assistant professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is in a…
Harvard primate center cited for monkey death April 2, 2012 The death in February of a dehydrated cotton-top tamarin monkey at an HMS primate research…
New approaches to hearing loss April 2, 2012 As the number of older Americans rapidly increases, so too has research into the consequences of…
What med students learn from sticking with their patients April 2, 2012 Altaf Saadi, a third-year HMS student currently participating in the Cambridge Integrated…
Joslin Diabetes Center, Sermo expand online collaboration April 2, 2012 In an effort to connect, inform, and stimulate discussion among physicians about…
Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed April 2, 2012 For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it’s found…
Study says DNA’s power to predict illness is limited April 2, 2012 While sequencing the entire DNA of individuals is proving fantastically useful in understanding…
Is sugar toxic? April 1, 2012 New research is starting to find that sugar, the way many people are eating it today, is a toxin…
Sovereign Bank to support MGH Cancer Center April 1, 2012 Sovereign Bank is gearing up for a formal announcement Wednesday of a new relationship with the…
Rise of the medical expertocracy March 31, 2012 Pamela Hartzband, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and…
