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Sleep apnea has been linked to obesity, which can encourage fat deposits to collect around the throat, making the airway more susceptible to collapse, said Atul Malhotra, the medical director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Sleep Disorders Program...
...prescriptions can save lives as well; the National Institute of Medicine recently reported that prescription errors cause at least 7,000 deaths each year, and electronic prescriptions can reduce those mistakes by catching misdosing and drug-drug interactions. E-prescribing can also cut costs; last year, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that prescribing software that can identify both generic drug options and medications covered by a patient's insurer, has the potential to save up to $845,000 for every 100,000 patients each year...
...retracted last year. The retraction came after a data-comparison search engine found that about half the text of the article was taken verbatim from a paper published in 2003. Though he had not spoken directly with Simon about the matter, Simon M. Helfgott, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that he believed Simon had intimated to others that the paper had been written by a third party before he himself signed off on it. “Unfortunately for him, that is not a defense that is acceptable,” Helfgott said. Helfgott...
...Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because of the financial crisis. Some of the decrease resulted from a new policy that no longer allows emergency room diversions to Beth Israel from Mass. General and Brigham and Womens’ hospitals, Levy said. Levy added at the meeting that there has been a cultural shift in treatment as well, as workers insecure in their employment postpone taking time off for elective surgery out of the fear their job might not be there when they return. After...
...added that they believe their findings will leave a lasting impact on the scientific community. “We’ve shown that any reasonable diet can provide weight loss, as long as caloric intake is reduced,” said Katherine D. McManus, Director of Nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who headed the diet intervention committee for the study. “It’s exciting—the message encourages long-term healthy eating habits.” —Staff writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...