Experiences in the clinic during the third year of medical school spur a remarkable transformation. For the first time, future MDs begin to feel like doctors.
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Experiences in the clinic during the third year of medical school spur a remarkable transformation. For the first time, future MDs begin to feel like doctors.
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The Hadza, one of the last remaining populations of hunter-gatherers on the planet, provide clues about social networks and the evolution of cooperation.
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Twenty years ago, the Family Van hit the road. Last month, the wellness services center on wheels celebrated two decades of providing free curbside health education, screenings and referrals to more than 40,000 people in Boston neighborhoods. “It’s fascinating to think about what’s the same and what’s changed over 20 years,” said Jennifer Bennet,...
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Researchers have discovered the cellular target for a two-thousand-year-old herbal remedy known as Chang Shan. The bioactive compound, called febrifugine, triggers a stress-response pathway that tells cells to conserve resources and eliminate unnecessary functions, which in turn blocks the production of dangerous, disease-causing immune cells.
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On Feb. 14, Children’s Hospital Boston featured its first Innovation Day, organized by the Hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program, an 18-month-old program at Children’s that supports innovation with funding, software development and advice. The TEDMED style conference featured talks by 17 of the Hospital’s clinicians. Children’s Chief Innovation Officer Naomi Fried welcomed a packed house,...
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First on the schedule in genetics clinic one afternoon were two sisters, ages 8 and 10, who had an appointment for evaluation of a “possible connective tissue disorder.” I remember thinking that they were much younger than the teenagers I had previously seen in clinic for similar reasons, referred by their pediatricians for newly...
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Is the mommy track vanquished? Or is it still a derailer of medical careers? The question loomed large as champions of women’s careers at HMS explored the challenges of flexible career paths during a panel discussion convened Feb. 6 by the HMS/HSDM Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW). The panel, titled “Lessons...
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The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT has been awarded a $32.5 million grant from the Klarman Family Foundation to support a new collaborative effort focused on deciphering how human cells are wired. The grant will allow the scientific community to expand its understanding of how biological decisions are made...
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Paul R. Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment and HMS instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, who died of lymphoma at his Boston home on Nov. 13, 2011. He was 67. Paul Robert Epstein was born on Nov. 16, 1943, in Manhattan, the older of two children...
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Recent publications from HMS researchers
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