Click Here to Read More … Investigators from the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have found that an important cluster of genes is inactivated in induced pluripotent stem cells — cells generated from adult tissue that have many characteristics of embryonic stem cells — that do not have the full development potential of embryonic stem cells.
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Click Here to Read More … Adding cognitive behavioral therapy – an approach that teaches skills for handling life challenges and revising negative thought patterns – to pharmaceutical treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder significantly improved symptom control in adult patients.
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Click Here to Read More … A protein known to be involved in a rare hereditary cancer syndrome may have a role in the regulation of liver stem cells and the development of liver cancer.
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Lung cancer patients receiving palliative care had improved quality of life, extended survival
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Click Here to Read More … Integrating palliative care early in the treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer not only improved their mood and quality of life, it also extended their lives.
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Click Here to Read More … MGH investigator Eric Campbell comments on study finding that patients, research participants and journal readers believe financial relationships between medicine and industry should be disclosed.
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Click Here to Read More … Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken the heart more than previously thought and may increase the risk of heart failure, according to a study led by MGH investigator Aaron Baggish, MD.
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Click Here to Read More … A lack of attention to workspace ergonomics could be to blame for radiologists’ musculoskeletal symptoms, including lower back pain, wrist pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, and headaches, according to a study to be presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society 2010 Annual Meeting.
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Click Here to Read More … Local company teams up with Mass General and Red Sox Foundation to support veterans.
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Click Here to Read More … Researchers from the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard discover how a genetic factor increases the immune system’s ability to control HIV.
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Click Here to Read More … Proton pump inhibitors, medications that suppress acid in the stomach, appear to be associated with fractures in postmenopausal women and bacterial infections in many patients.
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