An HSPH study has found that replacing just one serving of red meat a day with a packet of nuts could reduce heart disease risk by nearly a third.
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An HSPH study has found that replacing just one serving of red meat a day with a packet of nuts could reduce heart disease risk by nearly a third.
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Discovery could lower the risk of dangerous side effects caused by certain diabetes medications.
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The 2010 Alpert Prize has gone to HMS’s Howard Green for developing the first therapeutic use of lab-grown cells. Before stem cells gained prominence, Green cultivated them to generate skin grafts for burn victims.
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In terms of sheer size, the Harvard Faculty of Medicine—scattered across the Quad and 17 affiliated institutions—can be hard to fathom. In 2009, the full-time faculty was almost three times larger than that of the next largest U.S. medical school faculty, that of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
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The major tumor suppressor protein p53 defends the body against cancer but also pulses a similar alarm in healthy dividing cells, presumably in response to the fleeting nicks in the genome that normally occur. The system appears to balance the need to respond to severe damage with a tolerance for low-level damage.
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New students at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine came together on Aug. 17 to don their white coats and officially begin their medical and dental training. In a ceremony attended by the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Jeffrey Flier, some 200 students were welcomed to the schools. They...
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Following more than a year of rigorous discussion and deliberation, the Harvard University Faculty of Medicine Committee on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment has presented Dean Jeffrey Flier with a series of recommendations to revise and clarify the existing Policy on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment (COI policy). Dean Flier, who convened the committee...
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The HMS Integrity in Academic Medicine website offers valuable resources to help faculty members explore and address issues governing relationships between academic institutions and industry.
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The Crimson Care Collaborative exposes students to primary care while it increases access to primary-care services for patients in the region.
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Researchers at HSDM have found another reason why a diet high in soda and processed foods may be hazardous to your health: high levels of phosphate, a common additive in these foods, accelerates signs of aging in mice.
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