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Evicting Leukemia.
Evicting Leukemia Bone drug kills resistant cancer stem cells by making home unlivable A bone drug already on the market for osteoporosis may kill chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) stem cells thought...
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Harvard Medical School (HMS) Awards & Recognitions: November 2013
Harvard Medical School (HMS) Awards & Recognitions: November 2013 Shelly Greenfield, HMS professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, was recently awarded the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished...
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Immune Turbocharger
Immune Turbocharger In mice, bone-loss drugs boosted the power of vaccines Could a drug commonly prescribed to prevent bone loss boost the power of vaccines? New research from Harvard Medical School...
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Automating anesthesia
Automating anesthesia Animal study tests putting precise control of medically induced coma on ‘autopilot’ Putting patients with severe head injuries or persistent seizures into a medically induced...
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Protein Block
Protein Block Genetic error in some lung cancers may offer target for therapies A fine-grained scan of DNA in lung cancer cells has revealed a gene fusion—a forced merger of two normally separate...
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The July Effect
The July Effect Real danger exists for high-risk patients when trainees take on new roles With almost no experience, newly graduated medical students enter teaching hospitals around the country every...
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Doctors Orders
Doctor’s Orders A veteran of war and vascular surgery offers advice on health reform A weary American soldier rests on one knee in a dusty foreign desert. The young man’s massive backpack is...
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Targeting HSV
Targeting HSV NIH launches trial of genital herpes vaccine An experimental genital herpes vaccine developed by Harvard Medical School researchers is being tested in an early-stage clinical trial...
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Neurosurgery Distinction
Neurosurgery Distinction New academic department at HMS Recognizing neurosurgery as a discipline distinct from general surgery, Harvard Medical School has established a Department of Neurosurgery as an...
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Re-examining SIDS
Re-examining SIDS Brain abnormalities found independent of environment A new study suggests that many infants dying suddenly and unexpectedly in all kinds of sleep environments have underlying...
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Muscle Builders
Muscle Builders Zebrafish and stem cells enable fast drug discovery for muscle disorders Scientists have had little success growing skeletal muscle for people with muscular dystrophy and other...
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Mitochondrial Mystery.
Mitochondrial Mystery Investigating cells’ power packs fuels understanding of rare, and common, diseases How our cells’ power packs drink up calcium may unlock secrets of rare, and common, diseases...
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HMS Physician Nominated To Be U.S. Surgeon General
HMS Physician Nominated To Be U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is founder of Doctors for America President Barack Obama has nominated a Harvard Medical School physician to become the 19th surgeon...
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Damage Control
Damage Control Researchers identify a key molecule involved in kidney failure One of the most devastating side effects of diabetes is kidney failure, and one of the earliest signs of damage to the...
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New HMS Clinical Skills Center Opens.
New HMS Clinical Skills Center Opens. To be used for teaching, assessment, faculty development In many ways, the stately, white marble buildings around the Harvard Medical School quadrangle don’t look...
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Unnecessary Testing?
Unnecessary Testing? Study finds inappropriate laboratory testing throughout medicine Laboratory testing is health care’s single highest volume activity, with more than 5 billion tests performed each...
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Examining the Impact of Stress
Examining the Impact of Stress Symposium explores transdisciplinary studies on stress and its role in health disparities Exactly how much does stress really contribute to disparities in disease and...
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Head of the Class
Head of the Class Giant skull and foot models donated to Warren Anatomical Museum Thomas Dwight lectures to medical students in 1906 using two skull models. The one at right has just been donated to...
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How Rwanda Is Dramatically Expanding Its Health Workforce
How Rwanda Is Dramatically Expanding Its Health Workforce Innovative partnership aims to bridge human resource On the heels of a World Health Organization warning in Brazil last week that the world...
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Strong sense of purpose unites Harvard’s six Rhodes Scholars
A new setting — Oxford — for bold visions Their interests range from exploring the nexus of medicine, psychology, and sexuality to applying statistics to immunology research, but one thing Elizabeth...
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