Children’s Discovery Institute announces four new pediatric research awards
The Children’s Discovery Institute has awarded nearly $2.5 million in grants to four researchers seeking to advance child health.
Carlson heads new hospitalist medicine division in pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics has created a Division of Hospitalist Medicine, naming Douglas Carlson, M.D., as its director.
Gene regulates immune cells’ ability to harm the body
A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Registry to track children with infantile spasms
School of Medicine researchers have launched an online registry that aims to help children with a severe type of epilepsy that strikes in infancy.
Nominees for Goldstein Leadership Awards sought
Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.
Genes and beans
Photo by Robert BostonCentral Visual and Performing Arts High School students participated in an exercise in natural selection during a visit to the medical school Sept. 14.
Dementia induced and blocked in Parkinson’s fruit fly model
A derivative of a well-known spice may give researchers insight into Parkinson’s-induced dementia.
Seasonal flu shots begin Sept. 29 for School of Medicine employees
The School of Medicine will offer free seasonal flu shots to its faculty, staff and students from Sept. 29 through Oct. 28.
A stitch in time
Photo by Robert BostonMedical students in the Surgery Interest Group learn to suture on pieces of chicken.
Celebrating America’s women physicians
Photo by Robert BostonArts & Sciences senior Sarah April talks with Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D., as they look at the “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit at the Bernard Becker Medical Library.
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