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Nabel, who trained at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, would be the first woman to lead the Medical School in the institution’s 225-year history...
...Another eight schools received a B for “limited policies.” According to HMS spokesman Don L. Gibbons, the Medical School bans pharmaceutical company access to students during their first two years at the school, but its affiliate institutions, such as Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where students train during their last two years, have their own policies that are not subject to Medical School control. “The hospitals, not HMS control access in the second two years,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...newspaper that "ignorant translators, careless transcribers or designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors" in the Bible, which he revised according to God's revelations. Mormons were subject to persecutions, and in 1844, as he was running for President, Smith was murdered by an angry mob. His successor, Brigham Young, led followers to Utah, the church proceeded to grow rapidly, and Mormon leaders were identified by the church as God's prophets on earth...
...ripe age of 41, surgeon and writer Atul Gawande has a lot to brag about. In addition to joining the faculty at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2003, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1998, served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1993, and is currently an assistant professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health...
...subjects over 10 to 15 years. Researchers found that subjects who reduced their salt intake were 25 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease. “The reduction in cardiovascular disease was larger than we expected,” said Cook, who is affiliated with the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She added that although excessive sodium intake has been linked with hypertension and high blood pressure, this is the first study to comprehensively trace the long-term link between dietary sodium levels and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death...