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...group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital??s Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) have discovered that the plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease may affect a type of nervous system cell called an astrocyte, providing new insight into the far-reaching effects of the disease as well as possible therapeutic targets. Astrocytes are star-shaped cells that make up almost half the volume of the brain, and were traditionally thought to be support cells. It is now known that they can transmit signals through transient increases in calcium levels. “Astrocytes are often thought...
...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...
Tuli voiced previous complaints against Day with the hospital??at the end of her residency in 2004, Day allegedly asked, “Sagun can you get up on the table and dance for us to show the female residents how to behave?” according to testimony submitted in Tuli’s motion papers seeking an injunction against the hospital...
...Children’s Hospital??s attorney, William J. Dailey, Jr. of the Boston law firm Sloane and Walsh, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...John Doe No. 4 received word today that the hospital??s motion to dismiss the negligence claims on the grounds of “charitable immunity”—a legal doctrine currently recognized in only three states limiting liability in civil suits against charities—was denied...