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...controls production of the protein stathmin can embolden mice to make them more willing to explore and less likely to fear painful or dangerous stimuli. Vadim Y. Bolshakov—director of McLean Hospital’s Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—said that the study’s findings could serve as a launching point for research in psychiatric medicine. “Stathmin is a protein that is also found in human beings,” said Bolshakov, who worked on the study. The protein was identified...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) has released a study saying that global warming could cause a significant spread of asthma, infectious diseases, and heat wave deaths over the next several decades. But one professor at the School of Public Health expressed skepticism about some of the study’s findings...
...study, conducted by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at HMS, forecasted that the area suitable for tick habitat will quadruple over the next 80 years as a result of climate change...
...lead author of the study, Paul R. Epstein, an instructor at HMS, said in a statement that climate change could lead to disasters that would be “comparable” to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina...
Although members of the medical community have struggled in recent years to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding...