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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a new web-based diagnostic procedure to identify autism more quickly, which they hope will allow clinicians to provide better care to their patients.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Friday, April 6, 2012
Individuals with mutations in specific genes have a high risk of autism, according to scientists working independently at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Washington in Seattle.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Friday, March 30, 2012
Harvard Medical School has opened a new Center for Primary Care using funds from a $30 million anonymous donation gifted specifically to improve the quality of primary care training.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Thursday, March 8, 2012
In an effort to respond to what one hospital executive termed a “primary care crisis,” two Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals will shift their pay structure so that doctors are paid in part based on the number of patients they treat.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A new ranking system implemented by Medicare, aimed at identifying hospitals with patient safety risks, is generating complaints from the teaching hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School that these assessments provide inadequate representations of the quality of care.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently developed a vaccine for rhesus monkeys that provides immunity against the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus found in monkeys that is analogous to HIV.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Thursday, February 9, 2012
A new blood test designed at Massachusetts General Hospital appears to accurately indicate whether a person is suffering from depression, according to a paper published in Molecular Psychiatry.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Harvard rolled out a new travel tool on Monday that will allow the University to better aid students who might be in danger while traveling abroad.
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NEWS
By Jacob S. Beech, Armaghan N. Behlum, and Adam D. Ganik
Sunday, November 20, 2011
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Friday, November 18, 2011
Replacing the daily hordes of visitors, student protestors have pitched a small tent city in front of University Hall. They are occupying Harvard Yard.
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