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There is no long-term link between coffee consumption and increased blood pressure in women, a joint study by the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham & Women’s Hospital has found. The team, headed by Dr. Wolfgang Winkelmayer, sent out questionnaires every two years to 238,371 female nurses, asking for medical histories and lifestyle information—including coffee consumption. These were compared with incidence of physician-reported and self-reported high blood pressure. The study, published last Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a “modest inverse U-shaped...
Although members of the medical community have struggled in recent years to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding...
...public by Consumer Reports rates the Lifestyles Ultra Sensitive, which we provide, as one of the top three condoms for reliability and strength.” Ballinger also said she had spoken with David C. Olson, practice director of obstetrics and gynecology at UHS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who agreed that condoms available on the market now have been tested thoroughly and are of equivalent efficienty. He said that user preference is often a deciding factor. In 2003, CHI provided Durex-brand condoms, but switched brands in accordance with student preferences...
...will be offered, the school will have executive education programs, with its first courses on negotiation and family-owned businesses. HBS is also currently in the process of selecting a new dean, following the departure of Kim B. Clark ’74 who left last summer to head Brigham Young University-Idaho. Two of the six prospective deans on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ short-list—Dickinson Professor of Accounting Srikant M. Datar and Chapman Professor of Business Administration Nitin Nohria—are natives of India. Most consider Datar to be the frontrunner...
...McGuire said, and intervention funds are dwindling. “We’re going in the wrong direction in terms of where we’re committing funds,” she said.Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at HMS, gave a presentation on medical and clinical issues in HIV patient care. One of his patients, Joan Bennett, talked about living with HIV-AIDS.“It would have been better to tell someone I was dying...