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...reflects a push to make teaching as lucrative for doctors as treating patients, coming as Harvard Medical School revamps its curriculum to stress more faculty-student interaction. The funding, which will increase from $8 million to $16 million, will be contributed mostly by Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS), with an additional $3 million coming from Harvard’s three teaching hospitals—Mass. General, Brigham and Women’s, and Beth Israel Deaconess. HMS officials said it would be the first time that the hospitals directly funded the teaching of medical students...
Primum non nocere, or “first do no harm,” is an oft-repeated maxim of western medicine. But a paper by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) researcher presents new support for the possibility that breast cancer surgeons may be unintentionally doing just that. The paper, published in the International Journal of Surgery, hypothesizes that African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer because they are more likely to undergo surgery at a young age to remove cancerous tumors. That surgery may in fact exacerbate the cancer by unleashing agents into the body...
Toddlers who spend more time lounging in front of the tube maintain less healthy diets, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study announced yesterday. Each additional hour of television viewed by three-year-olds translated into 46 more calories consumed each day. “Obesity is very hard to treat once it has started,” said Sonia A. Miller, the HMS student who led the study. “We can already see the influence television has on three-year-old children, and it seems that reducing screen time will be very important in relation to the prevention...
...comprehensive report is an up-to-date summary of stress management and research, according to Herbert Benson, president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at the medical school. It is one of about 40 health studies HMS releases annually...
...quarter of a century ago when his uncle, Prince Andrew, then also 22, prevailed against opponents who feared that his participation in the Falklands conflict could prove at best a distraction and, at worst, a liability to his colleagues. Instead, as a helicopter pilot on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, he acquitted himself with honor during an episode that he described in an interview with TIME as "an adventure...