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...Fort Peck Native American Reservation in Montana will receive a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) program geared towards assisting the reservation, according to MGH...
...program funds an MGH internship for one, preferably Native American, student, providing behavioral- and mental-health-skills training that is not available to the Native American community, according to Dennis Norman, the MGH chief of psychology. He added that the recipient would be able to use these skills at Fort Peck after training...
...recent study by Harvard instructor Dr. Sara W. Lazar, has shown that meditation can help to increase brain function, reduce the effects of aging on the brain, and improve concentration and memory. Lazar, whose primary appointment is at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), initiated the study as a response to claims that meditation improved brain function and reduced the effects of aging. According to Dr. Lazar, no previous work had been done to actually analyze the physiological effects of one’s thoughts. However, this study provided “some really strong physical evidence that there are some long...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital—have found that many eligible stroke victims do not receive an important clot-dissolving drug on time, significantly increasing their risk of disability. The study is part of a larger research project into hospitals’ performance in quality improvement campaigns for stroke patients, including the American Stroke Association-based “Get With the Guidelines.” It will appear in the November issue of the journal Stroke. The drug in question, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), is the only...
...this is a critical piece of information that’s very poorly understood by the public. The NIH often only funds something that already has momentum,” Scadden said. “It’s the collective effort by institutions such as the HSCI and MGH at the beginning which allows us to be competitive through the NIH. We now have the ability to use NIH money to continue forward...