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...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...
...unprecedented move, Harvard Business School (HBS) last month made arrangements with Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho) to make its entire library of case studies and electronic materials—one of the most extensive in the world—available to professors and students at BYU-Idaho. While other universities have paid for use of HBS’s materials in the past, licenses have always been purchased on an individual and partial basis. This arrangement, made between HBS and BYU-Idaho President Kim B. Clark ’74, who until 2005 was dean of HBS, will...
...menopause--or essentially what the supplements were supposed to be used for in the first place. "We now have a more refined understanding of the role that age and timing of menopause have in affecting the benefits of hormone therapy," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a co-author of the study, known as the Women's Health Initiative. "Timing does matter...
When former Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 took over as President of Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho), he brought over a new vision for the Mormon school. Now, he’s also bringing over an entire library: BYU-Idaho has been using case studies from Clark’s alma mater since January, and is the first university to be given a site license for all of HBS’s electronic materials. “BYU is a first mover in this, because of Kim Clark?...