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...them to look at a broader cross section of patients. While previous efforts to collect HIV patient data have been limited to single health centers, the linking of clinics through a national database will help researchers better study a diverse HIV population, wrote the director of AIDS research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Daniel R. Kuritzkes, in an e-mail. About 1300 of these patients are currently being tracked at Fenway Community Health, said its president and CEO, Stephen L. Boswell. In addition to routine patient care data, quality of life measures and blood samples are also...
...Brigham Young University study found that standardized test scores for fourth- and fifth-graders rose from 10% to 15% in every subject at a Utah public school the year after amplification began, though no other changes were made. Proponents like University of Akron audiologist Carol Flexer says the technology's greatest bang for the buck may come during early childhood when reading skills and phonics are introduced. "Without the even distribution of sound in the room from these systems, it can be hard for children to hear the difference between watch or wash or wasp," says Flexer. Her small...
...think for that one year, they’re much better off embedded in a single hospital,” he said.CALL THE DOCTORMartin came to power at a tumultuous time in the school’s history. Two Harvard-affiliated hospitals, Massachussetts General and Brigham and Women’s, merged in 1993. And three more, Beth-Israel, Deaconess, and Mount Auburn, joined together in 1996.Looking for a leader who would steer the school through a period of change, then-President Neil L. Rudenstine named Martin to the deanship starting in 1997, bringing him to Harvard after a four...
...high percentage of medical errors taking place in non-emergency settings—ranging from a physician’s office to a radiology lab—cause serious harm and death to patients, according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and the University of Texas Health Science Center. The report, published Tuesday in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 30 percent of missed, late, or wrong diagnoses resulted in death, and over 50 percent of the medical errors happened in cancer cases. Though medical errors...
...fight terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is courting strange bedfellows near you. The DHS will grant $200,000 to Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security...