Harvard Medical School
Competition Seeks Ideas About Diabetes
Harvard Catalyst, an interdisciplinary health research organization, will launch a competition soliciting insights related to type 1 diabetes from all across the campus—an endeavor that organizers say will hopefully lead to diverse perspectives on the disease and its treatment.
Jack Szostak
HMS Professor and Nobel Prize Laureate Jack Szostak spoke about his research on telomeres and telomerase at MGH yesterday.
August Coffee Poison Case Goes Unsolved
Following an unsuccessful four-month investigation of the Aug. 26 poisoning at a Harvard Medical School laboratory, the Harvard University Police Department is no longer actively working on the case.
Gould’s Doctors Cleared By Jury
A medical malpractice suit brought against two doctors at a Harvard-affiliated hospital on behalf of a deceased Harvard professor was resolved Friday, ending in the exonerations of the doctors and awarding no damages to the plaintiff after nearly five years of legal battles.
Adams House Master Passes Olympic Flame in Calgary
There were five things Adams House Master Judith S. Palfrey '67 said she was told to remember before carrying the 2010 Olympic Flame across a 300-yard stretch in Calgary, Canada. The first three were simple: smile, smile, and smile.
Harvard Lends Helping Hands to a Shaken Country
Larry D. Arbuthnott ’10 was woken from his afternoon nap by his grandmother's worried shrill: “Turn on the news! I think there's been an earthquake in Haiti.”
Adams House Master To Carry Olympic Torch in Calgary
Adams House Master and Harvard Medical School professor Judith S. Palfrey '67 will carry the 2010 Olympic Flame Tuesday, Jan. 19 across a 300-yard stretch in Calgary, Canada.
Unequal Distribution of Assisted Living Homes Hints at Problems, Study Says
A recent Harvard Medical School study examining the unequal distribution of senior assisted living homes raised potentially troubling issues regarding the nation’s longterm care for the elderly.
Harvard-Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Impose Caps on Outside Pay
Two major Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals implemented caps on outside pay for senior officials who also sit on boards of pharmaceutical or medical device-making firms effective Jan. 1.
Harvard Researchers Discover Native Flu-Fighting Proteins
A team led by Harvard researchers has discovered a family of naturally occurring proteins in human cells that protect against influenza and other illnesses—a finding that may lead to methods to speed up vaccine production and to new flu prevention drugs for humans.
Hospital Chair To Resign Dec. 31
The resignation of Arthur L. Day, who has served as chair of neurosurgery at the Harvard affiliate since July 2007, was announced in an e-mail to the hospital’s community Monday.
HMS Prof. Says TV Host Influenced Suicide
In a recent filing of a wrongful-death civil suit to a district court in Florida, Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Harold J. Bursztajn stated that CNN reporter Nancy Grace may have contributed to the suicide of Melinda Duckett, the mother of a 2-year-old who went missing in 2006.
NIH Approves Stem Cell Lines
Eleven lines of human embryonic stem cells produced by the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston were approved for federal research funding ...
Professors in Several Parts of University Offered Retirement Package
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and four of the University's professional schools offered retirement plans to members of their faculty earlier today, marking the realization of an idea that surfaced when it became clear last fall that the University's endowment would be hard-hit by the financial crisis.
HMS Dean Criticizes Health Care
Last week Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier gave the debate over health care reform a “failing grade.” In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Flier criticized the nature of the debate, the economic logic of the spending plan, the efficacy of proposed legislation, and the plan’s transparency.
Study: Insurance Affects Mortality
Uninsured trauma victims were nearly twice as likely to die from injuries in a hospital than insured patients, according to a study conducted by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Hayden Panettiere coming to HMS?
The CW network once confined its cookie-cutter melodramas to the mean streets of Park Avenue and botoxed Beverly Hills. But no longer. The latest hotbed of young adult debauchery and angst, according to Warner Bros. executives, is Harvard Medical School. The network is developing a show of the Grey's Anatomy ilk, creatively called "HMS," according to a brief published in The Hollywood Reporter this week. More details after the jump.
HMS Launches Swine Flu Application
Harvard Medical School debuted an H1N1 Influenza iPhone application this week as part the school’s new HMSMobile program, which provides ...
HMS Building Receives Award
The New Research Building at Harvard Medical School has been named one of the recipients of the annual Merit Award ...
Poisoning Sends Six to Hospital
Six Harvard Medical School researchers were poisoned in August after drinking contaminated coffee, according to a memorandum released by HMS officials last Friday.
Nabel To Lead Two Boston Hospitals
Nationally-renowned cardiologist Elizabeth G. Nabel will take the helm of two major Boston teaching hospitals—including the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s ...
Urate May Help Slow Parkinson’s
High levels of uric acid are typically associated with gout, the painful condition that afflicted King Louis XVIII of France.
Putting the Patient Back Into Medicine
When Martin A. Samuels was growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland, a house call from his pediatrician J.W. Epstein was a big deal.