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...central administrators—over the fierce objections of HMI’s founders—during the interregnum between former Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Flier. Harvard officials involved in finalizing the agreement could not be reached for comment yesterday. Since Partners owns Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s—two of the Medical School’s four major hospitals—Pieper said that the organization would continue to pursue a substantial amount of research and education with the Medical School. The Medical School will retain and operate certain education-oriented...
There's nothing particularly fantastical about Meyer's life. She grew up in Phoenix, the daughter of a CFO at a contracting firm, and went to Brigham Young University, where she met her husband, an accountant named Christian who goes by "Pancho." They got married at 21 and have three sons. They still live just outside Phoenix in a town called Cave Creek, in a large modern house guarded by towering saguaro cacti. Smart, funny and cheery, Meyer does not seem noticeably undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated...
...drug—now going by the mellifluous label TG101348—attacks a mutated protein that induces growth of the cancerous blood cells that fuel so-called myeloproliferative diseases, which afflict about 100,000 people in the United States, according to a press release from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where the study was conducted...
...report found that Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital (MGH) would have saved over $54 million in Medicare reimbursements from 2001 to 2005 if it had treated patients with the same level of care as the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. One of Harvard’s other affiliates, Brigham and Women’s, would have saved $38.5 million...
...definitely have a more aggressive attitude at the end of life than in the rest of the country,” said Thomas H. Lee, Jr. ’75, the network president at Partners HealthCare, the group that owns both MGH and Brigham and Women’s. “There is a culture where people hear of medical advances all the time and may be less inclined to give up,” he said...