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Around midnight on Dec. 26, Susan M. Briggs, a surgeon on the Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty, received a telephone call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
...earthquake of magnitude 6.6 had just destroyed the city of Bam in Iran. Briggs and a team of doctors, more than half of whom were from HMS, assembled that morning, obtained enough equipment and supplies to set up a field hospital, and arrived in Iran...
...minute [the Bam residents] heard we were there, we were mobbed,” said Annekathryn Goodman, a gynecologic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at HMS...
...HMS research comes on the heels of a Dec. 2 announcement by Avanir Pharmaceuticals that it is developing an antibiotic that, taken just once before anthrax infection, would both kill anthrax bacteria and prevent anthrax toxin from entering cells...
...protease inhibitors identified by the study were discovered by utilizing technology developed in 2001 by Cantley and Benjamin E. Turk, another Beth Israel scientist and an HMS research fellow in medicine...