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...tumors, said the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences associate. “These therapies have worked pretty well in many patients and are very promising, but you need a highly trained technician and a very expensive facility,” Huebsch said. “Patients at the Brigham [and Women’s Hospital in Boston] can probably access these therapies but not patients in more rural areas.” Ali decided to develop an implantable system that would recruit the dendritic cells by mimicking infection and inducing an immune response. With the new implants, 90 percent...
...researchers separate the role that improved air quality plays from other factors? Very carefully. "The problem is," says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...
...marvelous," says Becker of the National Kidney Foundation. And, if the study results hold, that benefit could extend to other transplant tissue as well. "We're going to see interest in utilizing this principle for other groups of organs," says Dr. Stefan Tullius, chief of transplant surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "That's part of the value of this study...
...their foundation’s assets through Madoff’s fund, pledged in a statement last week to honor “all existing commitments.” Their couple’s foundation has supported many initiatives at Harvard-affiliates including the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
...regulator of the body's sleep and wake patterns. In Phase II and III clinical trials of 450 people who were subjected to simulated jet lag in a sleep laboratory (participants were forced to go to bed at 6 p.m. and wake up at 2 a.m.), a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that the new drug restored near normal sleep the first night it was used. In one arm of the study, participants taking a high dose of the drug actually fell asleep more quickly than usual. In another part of the study, pill-takers...