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...might not have believed your mother when she told you that eating fish would make you smarter, but according to a new study, if she ate seafood while pregnant, your IQ might have increased.Last week, a team of researchers led by a professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) published a scientific paper stating that mothers who eat seafood during pregnancy have smarter children.The study, published in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is a new wrinkle in the debate over the safety of fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor and a colleague from George Washington University Medical Center won a contract last Thursday to study ways of measuring the spread of health information technology (IT). The researchers, HMS’ Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy David Blumenthal ’70 and Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy Sara Rosenbaum will use the award—which was granted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—to lead a team of experts in assessing different standards of health IT measurement...
...year, $20 million grant to establish a center geared toward applying nanotechnology to cancer research. The MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) will be one of seven centers across the nation, the NCI announced on Oct. 3. Ralph Weissleder, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Center for Molecular Imaging Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, will head the new center. “We’re hoping to use new nanotechnology—things that have...
...usually takes more than a touch of magic to cure an illness, but a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study has found that wand-waving may actually help stroke patients recover. The study of 10 stroke patients, conducted by HMS neurologist Dr. Felipe Fregni and co-authors at the medical school, found that placing magnetic wands over the heads of stroke patients can help them to regain lost motor skills. The non-invasive therapy, called transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS), uses a figure eight-shaped coil to deliver weak, pulsating electrical currents to specific areas of the brain. When the therapy...
...Abboud, vice president of government relations and community develpoment at the Venetian. “They want to know how they can help people learn more responsible behavior.” It’s hard not to be skeptical about such benevolence, but Christine J. Reilly, the HMS addiction institute’s executive director, insists that these casinos really do mean well. “They know they don’t make that much money off of addicted gamblers, and they know that not everyone can use their product responsibly,” said Reilly...