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...haven't yet been studied as thoroughly, but there's no reason to think they wouldn't get the same benefit from high doses of folate. Dr. John Forman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the principal investigator, isn't ready to say that everybody should take 1,000 micrograms of folate a day. He wants to see his findings confirmed in a large, randomized trial in which half the subjects take the supplement and half take a placebo. Other scientists caution that early studies suggesting that large doses of vitamin E protect against heart disease haven...
...haven't yet been studied as thoroughly, but there's no reason to think they wouldn't get the same benefit from high doses of folate. Dr. John Forman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the principal investigator, isn't ready to say that everybody should take 1,000 micrograms of folate a day. He wants to see his findings confirmed in a large, randomized trial in which half the subjects take the supplement and half take a placebo. Other scientists caution that early studies suggesting that large doses of vitamin E protect against heart disease haven...
With colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the Harvard researchers found that a small amount of alcohol each day can reduce women’s risk of experiencing cognitive decline in later years...
Doctors also know that statins can reduce inflammation. So cardiologists from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston put 3,745 patients who had experienced heart attacks or severe chest pain on statins, and later measured levels of both LDL and CRP. It turned out that patients who ended up with low CRP were less likely to have heart attacks or die than those whose CRP stayed high--whether or not their LDL levels went down. Showing that CRP reduction is at least as important as cholesterol reduction, says Dr. Paul Ridker, lead author of the report, is a "home...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Hospital students have to come here to train,” said Jones. “We are the premier education center for this type of technology...