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Manson, who is also chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, added that some subgroups of women did show benefits from taking vitamin C and vitamin E. Women who had three or more risk factors had a 42 percent lower risk of stroke, and smokers also appeared to have a reduced risk of stroke...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive...
...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...
...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...