Pain relief for patients in Uganda MGH provides training in technique to soothe surgical recoveries Vicki Modest (far left) demonstrates the use of ultrasound in the operating room to Sadic Kagwa, an anesthesia resident at Mbarara. “Pain control is one of the major issues before and after an operation,” said Paul First, assistant professor of […]

The magic of beanbags High school friends bring their game to Harvard David Mazza ’14 (left) and Juan Favela ’14 toss around some beanbags at a Monday practice of Harvard’s cornhole club. The summer before they started at Harvard, high school friends Joe McCormick and Jamie Dickerson drove to Home Depot to buy plywood. “We […]

As Diabetes Emerges, Researchers Track Disease’s First Steps Scientists have taken a remarkably detailed look at the initial steps that occur in the body when type 1 diabetes mellitus first develops in a child or young adult. Nicholas Jospe, M.D., and Deborah Fowell, Ph.D. The analysis comes from a team of researchers and physicians at […]

WHO’s new recommendations on contraceptive use and HIV The World Heath Organization today issued revised recommendations for women who are at high risk for HIV/AIDS and who are using injectable hormonal contraceptives. The new recommendations come on the heels of a study published last October in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, which found that women using these contraceptives, which are particularly popular in […]

Immersed in the body politic Anthropologist documents the stories behind population and health policies When Susan Greenhalgh studied for her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University, China was undergoing an economic and political opening. After finishing her Ph.D. in 1982, Greenhalgh took a job at the New York–based Population Council as “an anthropologist, policy analyst, […]

HHS ensures consumers get better value for their health insurance dollar Administration actions saved consumers up to $323 million Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less […]

HHS announces intent to delay ICD-10 compliance date As part of President Obama’s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and […]

Remembering the co-ed experiment Pfoho residents uncover, celebrate history 40 years after House integration Pforzheimer House residents Suzanna Bobadilla (right) and Matt Chuchul are the primary student organizers of a one-night exhibit on Harvard’s “great co-educational experiment” called “The Residential Revolution: The History of Gender and Pfoho Student Life,” an exhibit and celebration of House […]

New subtype of ovarian cancer identified Harvard researchers believe it may be vulnerable to anti-angiogenic drugs The investigators estimate that the subtype may account for a third of all serous ovarian cancers, a common cancer of the surface of the ovaries. “With this study, we’ve shown that serous ovarian cancer exists in at least one […]

Video: Crowdsourcing your health … … In this interesting TED Talk, Lucien Engelen, the founder and curator of TEDxMaastrict, discusses several emerging technologies that he thinks have the potential to change health care, including a crowd-sourced map of defibrillators. Engelen is also on the advisory board for the Stanford Medicine X conference this September. By John Stafford Stanford University Medical Center ### * […]