Word: brighamism
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...surgical team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recently received permission to perform partial face transplants on qualified disfigured patients, the Boston Globe reported late last month...
...chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will also assume the role of senior vice president in charge of all medically related activities, the press release said. Sachs has been at Beth Israel since 1989, and he also spent time working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the early 1980s...
...Mary’s Medical School graduate first moved to Boston to complete his residency at the Brigham and Women’s in 1978. Since then, Sachs has held various leadership positions at both Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
...body turns on itself, and they hope these new genes may offer a clue. "This is by no means the final, whole answer, but we've gotten an incredible glimpse into the cause of the disease," says Dr. David Hafler, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital and an author of one of the papers, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the other reports, published in Nature Genetics, two independent research teams confirmed the role of one of the genes described by Hafler's group...
...estrogen therapy in all post-menopausal women. "These findings provide reassurance to recently menopausal women who are considering estrogen therapy for treatment of menopausal symptoms, that estrogen is not likely to have an adverse effect on the heart," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and an author of the study. "But it does not mean that women should begin taking estrogen for the express purpose of preventing cardiovascular events because there are other risks of hormone therapy...