The Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is seeking applications for the academic year 2012-2013 Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education. The Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education was established in 1998 to provide faculty the opportunity to develop the expertise and skills needed to launch...
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Senior leaders, educators and researchers from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard-affiliated hospitals presented a series of talks and a panel discussion focusing on clinical and translational research education and on the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current ecosystem of biomedicine and human health. Astounding things happen...
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Recent publications from HMS researchers
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Physician referral rates in the United States doubled between 1999 and 2009, a new study finds, an increase that likely contributes to the rising costs of health care.
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Hidden knowledge lurks in the massive data sets generated by high-throughput technologies like the microarray, which can measure the expression of tens of thousands of genes simultaneously.
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Scientists, physicians, activists, and others on the front lines of the 30-year fight against AIDS gathered on Harvard’s Longwood Campus on World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 to plot a strategy to achieve something that most once thought impossible: ending the AIDS epidemic. The discussion was part of a two-day conference called “AIDS@30: Engaging...
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Susumu Ito, the James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy Emeritus at HMS, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in November for exemplary service during World War II. Ito, a forward observer for his artillery unit, was part of a now legendary 1944 mission to rescue the Lost Battalion of the 36th Division, surrounded...
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A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston. Mouse studies of other...
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Slow and fast visual cues are processed in discrete regions, opening new avenues for neural research It’s hard to be a mouse. You’re a social animal, but your fellows are small and scattered. You’re a snack to a bestiary of fast, eagle-eyed predators, not least the eagle. You’re fast too, but your spatial vision...
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Joseph B. Martin, who served HMS as dean from 1997 to 2007, chronicles his life’s journey from modest beginnings as a Mennonite farm boy to the pinnacle of U.S. academic and medical leadership. Martin—the first in his family to receive a college education—recounts his evolution, starting with his first professorial appointment, at McGill University,...
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