Tag: Boston Children’s Hospital
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Health
Eating more during the holidays? Don’t mistake Oreo calories for olive calories.
David Ludwig discusses the drivers of the country’s obesity crisis and how more people can maintain a healthy weight.
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Campus & Community
How consequential life grew from dying heart
For soon-to-be Harvard graduate, his medical career is personal, and a way to give back to a system that saved his life.
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Campus & Community
7 from Harvard among new Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
Seven Harvard affiliates are among 33 scientists from across the United States to be appointed as investigators by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Health
FDA panel member cheered by Pfizer news on COVID vaccine in kids
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been shown to be safe in school-age children, a potentially key development in the fight to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.
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Science & Tech
Taking a step toward discovering the cause of joint disease
A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.
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Campus & Community
An instrumental scientist
Jerome Kagan taught at Harvard for 36 years. He died May 10.
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Health
Tracking progression of disease through internet searches for symptoms
A College senior’s research project has shown a way to more quickly understand the characteristics of emerging diseases, by examining global internet searches for symptoms.
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Health
Breakthrough to halt premature aging of cells
Potential drug treatments are being developed for telomere diseases, in which cells age prematurely.
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Campus & Community
Scaled-down labs felt ‘this special responsibility’
Harvard scientists put their research on hold for safety, and see chance to help hospitals with precious gear.
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Campus & Community
Lab success, life goals
Dalton Brunson’s biology studies have led him to labs, research, and successes that he hopes keep him ever mindful of his commitment to expanding health care in rural areas.
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Health
Gene therapy was a ‘last shot’
Three years after undergoing gene therapy at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to treat a life-threatening immune disorder, an Ohio college student is no longer thinking about his own “last shot” for health, but rather about medical school and “giving back.”
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Health
Death is universal, but sometimes murky
A Q&A with ethicist Robert Truog to mark the 50-year anniversary of a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on brain death.
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Campus & Community
Ruiz found support at Medical School
The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).
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Science & Tech
Onward and upward, robots
The first article in a series on cutting-edge research at Harvard explores advances in robotics.
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Health
Closing in on a breakthrough
New findings from the lab of Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley suggest a path for creating immune-matched blood cells, derived from patients’ own cells, for treatment purposes.
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Science & Tech
Soft robot helps the heart beat
Researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure.
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Health
Colorful clones track stem cells
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have used a colorful cell-labeling technique to track the development of the blood system and trace the lineage of an adult blood cell traveling through the vast networks of veins, arteries, and capillaries back to its parent stem cell in the marrow.
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Health
Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders
Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.
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Health
Finally, hope for a young patient
A gene therapy trial points to a healthier future for a young patient suffering from a rare immune disease.
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Health
From leaf to itch
Harvard researchers have riddled the role of a molecule key to eruption of the torturous blisters as well as an antibody that interrupts the inflammatory response, opening the way to potential relief for careless hikers.
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Health
A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action
Researchers have found that cancer begins after activation of an oncogene or loss of a tumor suppressor, and involves a change that takes a single cell back to a stem cell state. They believe this model may apply not only to melanoma, but to most if not all cancers.
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Health
On top of the flu
A team led by Harvard statistician Samuel Kou has devised a new system for tracking flu outbreaks in real time.
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Health
Taking care on painkillers for kids
Harvard addiction specialist on FDA’s OxyContin OK: We have to respond to both patients and population health, a tricky task.
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Health
Easier way to fix hearts
Catheter aided by UV light allows repairs of heart holes without requiring surgery.
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Nation & World
Matching policy to power of addiction
The crisis in heroin addiction has mobilized law enforcement, public health officials, and scholars to push for substantial changes to drug policy.
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Health
Heroin’s descent
A report on the science of getting hooked on heroin, one in a three-part series examining addiction and new ideas for combatting it.
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Campus & Community
Two named MacArthur Fellows
Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Beth Stevens, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and neuroscientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, have been named MacArthur Fellows.
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Health
Zebrafish reveal drugs that may improve bone marrow transplant
Using large-scale zebrafish drug-screening models, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have identified a potent group of chemicals that helps bone marrow transplants engraft, or “take.”