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More than 30 years later, Ridker's name appears regularly in the NEJM and many other medical publications. Today he is a cardiologist at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and one of the world's leading experts on arterial inflammation, an immune-system reaction that is the most powerful contributor after cholesterol to heart attacks. A variation on the immune response that causes everything from arthritis to sinus infections, inflammation in the arteries turns out to be as dangerous for the heart as high cholesterol levels in the blood. "Inflammation has really changed our whole outlook on heart...
...University’s worries aren’t confined to preserving the educational mission. Harvard is also affiliated with Partners, CareGroup’s rival hospital organization, which represents Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s hospital...
...part of a complex land transaction to allow Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) to build a new $100 million research medical building, Harvard Medical School (HMS) earlier this month sold “at favorable rates” 31 houses it owned in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood to a local tenants association...
Three other Boston area researchers were honored, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiologist Paul Ridker, MIT biomedical engineer Robert Langer, and MIT cell death specialist H. Robert Horvitz...
FUELING THE PURGE URGE? Fashion magazines seem to get blamed for reinforcing eating-disorder tendencies in teenage girls. Now a study by researchers at Brigham Young University suggests that hyper-thin supermodels are not solely to blame. Teens who took laxatives or diet pills, went on severe diets or forced themselves to throw up, researchers found, were also more likely to be frequent readers of health and fitness magazines. Go figure...