Feb 3, 2010
Researchers use a low-dose chemotherapeutic polymer film to deliver drugs directly to lung tissue following surgical resection of a tumor.
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Feb 2, 2010
According to new research, a prostate cancer diagnoses may increase a man's risk of suicide or cardiovascular death, especially right after diagnosis.
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Jan 28, 2010
Platelets play a role in rheumatoid arthritis by releasing small platelet vesicles called microparticles.
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Jan 26, 2010
Researchers are now enrolling 20,000 participants throughout the entire U.S. to determine whether vitamin D and omega-3s can prevent colorectal, breast, prostate, and other cancers, as well as cardiovascular disease.
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Jan 18, 2010
Researchers have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.
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Jan 17, 2010
New research shows that giving a vaccine through a scratch on the skin, a technique called scarification, results in a better immune response when compared to injecting the vaccine into the body, and that the amount needed is 100 times less.
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Jan 15, 2010
Dr. Popp will lead an accomplished team of 14 expert neurosurgeons, along with renowned researchers.
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Jan 13, 2010
A ‘Catch Up’ Night Of Sleep Not Enough to Compensate: New research shows that chronic sleep loss over a few weeks results in much slower reaction times and profoundly poorer performance.
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Jan 12, 2010
Hormonal regulation of stress response in the brain differs in men and women.
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Jan 7, 2010
Men and women with low levels of bad cholesterol but elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein who were randomly given rosuvastatin, reduced their risk of fatal or non-fatal stroke by 48 percent.
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Jan 1, 2010
As of January 1, 2010, Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, assumes position as President of Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals.
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Jan 1, 2010
New research identifies the precursors of the scar forming cells that play a major role in progressive kidney fibrosis.
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Dec 28, 2009
Kowa Company, Ltd. of Nagoya, Japan (Kowa) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) announced today the opening of The Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS).
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Dec 23, 2009
Researcher's discovery suggests how toxin-filtering cells go awry.
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Dec 23, 2009
The US Department of Defense awards BWH a multi-million dollar contract to fund face transplants for veterans of the Iraq War.
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Dec 17, 2009
Researchers have identified a small family of flu-fighting proteins that somehow increases natural resistance to viral infection. The proteins block most virus particles from infecting the cell at the earliest stage in the virus lifecycle.
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Dec 16, 2009
Genetic variant found to be positively associated with lung function in children with asthma and adult smokers, as well as a reduced risk of COPD in adult smokers.
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Dec 3, 2009
BWH is one of 45 hospitals recognized by the Leapfrog Group for delivering the highest quality of care in the nation while attaining the highest levels of efficiency.
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Dec 1, 2009
Combination treatment with tenofovir-emtricitabine more safe and effective than combination treatment with abacavir-lamivudine.
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Dec 1, 2009
New research from BWH shows that treatments that reduce risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD) may also help combat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that affects millions of Americans.
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Nov 30, 2009
Extensive loss of sleep decreases reaction times and reduces attention spans.
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Nov 23, 2009
New research demonstrates the difficulties and potential disadvantages of using national databases to develop and measure quality indicators.
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Nov 18, 2009
Cigarettes increase risk of seizures, while moderate caffeine or alcohol use was found to have no association with seizures.
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Nov 18, 2009
Therapy's effects on airway hyperresponsiveness, not lung function, was affected by genetic mutation.
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Nov 17, 2009
High levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL or “good” cholesterol) and apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1) in women appears to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Nov 13, 2009
Researchers have found that the characteristics of the blood vessels within prostate tumor cells may indicate the aggressiveness of the cancer.
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Nov 9, 2009
The failure to order tests, report results to patients, or follow-up with abnormal test findings, are leading types of diagnostic errors, according to a survey of primary care and specialist physicians in the United States.
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Nov 4, 2009
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is the first to identify a therapeutic protein with potential to prevent fibrosis.
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Oct 30, 2009
Researchers found no significant differences in deaths, heart attacks, heart failure, or need for dialysis compared to placebo. However, researchers found an increased risk of stroke among those assigned to darbepoetin alfa compared to placebo.
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Oct 29, 2009
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that inflammation is associated with heightened pain sensitivity at joint sites, whereas increased sleep problems are associated with heightened pain sensitivity at both joint and non-joint sites.
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Oct 28, 2009
Researchers discover why fish oils produce anti-inflammatory effects, which could have major clinical implications for the treatment of a number of diseases related to inflammation.
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Oct 27, 2009
Specific structures on the surface of prostate cancer cells trigger prostate cancer cell adhesion inside blood vessel walls in bone tissue, greatly increasing the prospect of prostate cancer cells metastasizing to bone.
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Oct 26, 2009
Researchers at BWH have discovered a novel means of controlling stem cell differentiation into desired cell types.
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Oct 26, 2009
The effectiveness of treating HIV with antiretroviral therapy is undermined by the large number of individuals who initiate treatment but do not continue regular clinic visits.
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Oct 23, 2009
The benefits in survival for treating HIV with antiretroviral therapy appear to differ by both gender and ethnicity.
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Oct 22, 2009
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, has been named the next president. Dr. Nabel will assume her position January 1, succeeding Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA.
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Oct 21, 2009
MetLife Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance today honored the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Student Success Jobs Program (SSJP) with an Afterschool Innovator Award.
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Oct 15, 2009
Free Screening and Health Lectures Sponsored by Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center in Foxborough.
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Oct 14, 2009
BWH to work with CVS Caremark, which is sponsoring research to investigate patient adherence to prescription drug therapies and identify ways to increase adherence.
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Oct 14, 2009
Researchers measured the level of amyloid ß peptides in the blood of Nurses’ Health Study participants and found that higher plasma Aß 40:42 ratios in late midlife was significantly associated with greater decline in cognitive function later in life.
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Oct 13, 2009
New research finds that procedures performed the day after attending physicians worked overnight were not more likely to have an increased risk for complications if the physician had an opportunity to sleep for six or more hours.
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Oct 13, 2009
Researchers find the minimally invasive approach results in a higher rate of genitourinary complications, incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
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Oct 6, 2009
New system at BWH is the first in the world to allow the capabilities of both MRI and x-ray angiography in a single suite.
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Sep 30, 2009
Researchers have identified a possible means of storing platelets in cold temperatures to improve usability.
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Sep 29, 2009
Woodmansee joins the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension and the Department of Neurosurgery
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Sep 24, 2009
Two of the 115 awards supported by the NIH Common Fund’s Roadmap for Medical Research are awarded to three BWH researchers.
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Sep 21, 2009
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program recognizes BWH as one of 25 to have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care.
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Sep 18, 2009
Researchers demonstrate the use of cardiac CT to detect both coronary artery stenosis and resulting myocardial ischemia in a single visit.
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Sep 18, 2009
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have found that totally blind women have more than a 50 percent reduction in breast cancer compared to visually impaired women and that this same group of totally blind women have an earlier menarche.
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Sep 15, 2009
For the children of Mothers who experienced physical or sexual abuse before pregnancy, a higher likelihood of developing asthma and allergies.
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Sep 15, 2009
Researchers at BWH found that in patients with recent onset type-2 diabetes, insulin and metformin did not reduce inflammatory biomarkers.
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Sep 10, 2009
Unique online learning tool called Interactive Medical Cases enhances clinical learning in an innovative virtual format.
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Sep 4, 2009
Researchers share lessons learned from the experience of implementing an HIV testing program in a busy academic teaching hospital
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Sep 1, 2009
Researchers find that skin infection visits to physicians’ offices have not become more common since the discovery of community-associated MRSA.
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Aug 31, 2009
Researchers found that proton pump inhibitors do not interfere with the clinical benefit of the anticlotting drugs clopidogrel or prasugrel in patients after an acute coronary syndrome.
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Aug 30, 2009
Phase II clinical trial of drug designed to block the formation of blood clots shows potential to reduce the risk of death, a second heart attack, or other coronary complications.
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Aug 25, 2009
Researchers have now identified the specific underlying health conditions that increase the risk of death in men treated with hormonal therapy for prostate cancer.
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Aug 17, 2009
Researchers identify a coronary vascular progenitor cell capable of growing new coronary arteries
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