The following is the press releases for the current year. Or you can
Oct 08, 2008
Leading healthcare organizations publish practical science-based strategies to help prevent the six most important healthcare-associated infections.
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Oct 05, 2008
Ecess bodyweight and high plasma concentrations of C-peptide in men who are subsequently diagnosed with prostate cancer are reliable indicators that they are more likely to die from their disease than those with lower levels.
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Sep 25, 2008
Researchers followed 7000-plus patients, two years in longest, largest stent cohort to date.
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Sep 21, 2008
New genetic indicators for rheumatoid arthritis uncovered, providing an avenue for researchers to better understand the disease and pursue new treatment.
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Sep 18, 2008
The National Insitute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke appointed appointed Dr. Robert M. Friedlander, vice chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at BWH, to the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and and Stroke Council.
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Sep 04, 2008
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard’s School of Public Health and Medical School, and colleagues in Europe have found a new genetic pathway for the development of both of the major forms of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Sep 03, 2008
Health care fraud is widely thought to be pervasive, and now, for the first time, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have chronicled the characteristics and financial impact of recent health care fraud cases.
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Sep 02, 2008
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that daily ibuprofen use may increase cardiovascular risk for arthritis patients.
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Aug 25, 2008
Rates of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are growing rapidly throughout the world, and curtailing the disease is a major WHO priority. Now, researchers from BWH have shown successful treatment outcomes for patients with XDR-TB in Russia.
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Aug 14, 2008
Study findings suggest how to better prevent harmful medication record discrepancies
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Aug 12, 2008
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have now shown that men who had been screened for a longer period of time using PSA tests were less likely to have adverse features of prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis.
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Aug 04, 2008
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that one of the most commonly used rapid HIV tests, when conducted on oral fluid in a low prevalence emergency department population, may lead to a high rate of false positive results.
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Aug 04, 2008
Implications of circadian rhythm in sleep inertia for on-call professionals
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Jul 29, 2008
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) welcomes two new doctors, Roy John, MD, PhD and Gregory Michaud, MD, both of Concord, MA, to the cardiac electrophysiology team in the Cardiovascular Division.
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Jul 25, 2008
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have shown that when older people are asked to stay in bed during 16 hours of darkness, they sleep only about 7.5 hours compared to the 9 hours that younger people sleep when in the same situation.
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Jul 21, 2008
A new genetic finding from a group of researchers showed that the build up of a certain protein is responsible for controlling the production of the gene, alpha-synuclein, which is a cause of PD.
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Jul 17, 2008
Researchers at BWH's Channing Laboratory have effectively evaluated three different weight-loss diets over two years and found that both Mediterranean and Low-carbohydrate diets are as effective in achieving weight-loss as low-fat diets.
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Jul 14, 2008
BWH has again earned high marks on the U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals, ranking eighth among the 19 hospitals on the list. This ranking is two spots higher than 2007’s number 10 ranking.
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Jul 11, 2008
BWH welcomes two new doctors, Roy John, MD, PhD and Gregory Michaud, MD, both of Concord, MA, to the cardiac electrophysiology team in the Cardiovascular Division.
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Jul 10, 2008
Researchers designed a pre-clinical course for Harvard Medical School students to enhance their diagnostic abilities and improve their visual acumen through close observation and guided discussion of fine art and artistic concepts.
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Jul 09, 2008
David Silbersweig, MD, has been named chair of the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Department of Psychiatry effective July 1, 2008.
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Jul 01, 2008
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) finds that women who are diagnosed with a heart attack stand to benefit as much as men from routine cardiac catheterization.
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Jun 25, 2008
Healthy individuals with higher levels of albumin excretion, even levels considered normal, are at increased risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure), according to a recent BWH study.
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Jun 24, 2008
Researchers from BWH, studying the potential role of omega-3 fatty acids in preventing asthma attacks and allergic reactions, have identified a molecule produced by the body that helps alleviate respiratory attacks in lab mice.
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Jun 22, 2008
Scientists have long questioned whether the abundant amounts of amyloid plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's actually caused the neurological disease or were a by-product of its progress.
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Jun 19, 2008
Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS, one of the world's experts in the treatment of neuroendocrine disorders, has joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Jun 16, 2008
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have shown for the first time that a strong association exists between insulin resistance and peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a risk factor for heart attacks and stroke.
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Jun 11, 2008
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have shown in a new study that low melatonin levels are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
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May 10, 2008
BWH researchers assessed surgical utilization and complications, lengths of hospital stay and cancer outcomes in over 2,700 men who underwent prostate cancer surgery and found that MIRP usage almost tripled between 2003 and 2005.
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May 08, 2008
The BWH Asthma Research Center has received a $2 million Genetics Enters Medicine grant from Partners to study the influence of one’s genetic profile on response to asthma therapies.
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Apr 24, 2008
Researchers at BWH have found that variation in several genes that are associated with metabolic and inflammatory regulation – in diseases such as diabetes and heart disease – also have significant effects on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels.
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