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...errors taking place in non-emergency settings—ranging from a physician’s office to a radiology lab—cause serious harm and death to patients, according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and the University of Texas Health Science Center. The report, published Tuesday in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 30 percent of missed, late, or wrong diagnoses resulted in death, and over 50 percent of the medical errors happened in cancer cases. Though medical errors are an oft-studied subject...
...extraordinary stress related to deep poverty, abuse, neglect, and/or discrimination affects the development of the brain beginning the earliest years of life,” said Jack P. Shonkoff, director of the new center and professor of child health and development at the School of Public Health (HSPH) and Graduate School of Education (GSE), in a press release...
...idea for the center was first discussed in the summer of 2005, when HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom and McCartney both reached out to Shonkoff with the idea of creating a program on child development even more comprehensive than the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child...
Because Shonkoff teaches at both the HSPH and GSE, it is natural that the center will initially encompass faculty primarily from those two schools, Najarian said...
...heads are often advised to take a deep breath, but a recent Harvard study suggests that they might not have the lung capacity to do it. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of hostility may lead to pulmonary function deterioration. The study examined data gathered by the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study on 670 men aged 45 to 86 who were assessed on the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale in 1986 and then subjected to follow-up pulmonary function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that...