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...According to Howard H. Hiatt, a professor of medicine who worked closely with Kim as associate chief of the division of global health equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Kim’s efforts have spearheaded movements to increase awareness of health concerns in developing countries, bringing medical researchers out of their comfort zone and into the field...
...first and only female spine neurosurgeon at Harvard was awarded $1.6 million in a sex discrimination lawsuit on Tuesday after a jury found the defendants—Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Arthur L. Day, chairman of the hospital’s neurosurgery department—guilty of five of seven separate claims...
...tumors, said the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences associate. “These therapies have worked pretty well in many patients and are very promising, but you need a highly trained technician and a very expensive facility,” Huebsch said. “Patients at the Brigham [and Women’s Hospital in Boston] can probably access these therapies but not patients in more rural areas.” Ali decided to develop an implantable system that would recruit the dendritic cells by mimicking infection and inducing an immune response. With the new implants, 90 percent...
...researchers separate the role that improved air quality plays from other factors? Very carefully. "The problem is," says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...
...marvelous," says Becker of the National Kidney Foundation. And, if the study results hold, that benefit could extend to other transplant tissue as well. "We're going to see interest in utilizing this principle for other groups of organs," says Dr. Stefan Tullius, chief of transplant surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "That's part of the value of this study...