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Prize-Winning Variation Harvard Medical School professor Charles Lee has been awarded the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine for his discovery of unexpected variations in the human genome, according to the Broad Institute...
Established in 1990, the prize is awarded annually to scholars of Korean origin for their work in one of five disciplines, which range from community service to science. Lee, who at 38 is the youngest to receive the medicine prize, will also be awarded with around $200,000 at the ceremony in Seoul this June...
...definitely have a more aggressive attitude at the end of life than in the rest of the country,” said Thomas H. Lee, Jr. ’75, the network president at Partners HealthCare, the group that owns both MGH and Brigham and Women’s. “There is a culture where people hear of medical advances all the time and may be less inclined to give up,” he said...
...Lee, who was once a Crimson editorial editor, noted that the report’s data was not adjusted for differences in medical costs by state. The wages of medical professionals in Massachusetts are about 20 percent higher than those in Minnesota, Lee said...
...next big step is a cultural one,” said Lee, who is also a member of the Council. “Adopting a more thoughtful approach to end of life care is really something that has to be discussed in churches, schools, and senior centers...