The Pharma Data

AUGUST 18, 2020

The number of students studying to be doctors is regulated because of the cost and for NHS workforce planning. Ministers are coming under pressure to lift the limit on the number of places to study medicine in England, after changes to how A-levels are awarded.

Medical Schools

Broad Institute

JUNE 18, 2024

Appearing today in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics , the results could help improve outbreak response and clinical care by bringing tests that are accurate, low-cost, and fast to doctors’ offices and labs across the US and in other countries.

Virus

Broad Institute

MAY 30, 2023

When I went to school, I was set on becoming a doctor. I told him I was struggling with my classes and that I didn’t think I'd make it to medical school. Then he asked, “Well, why do you want to be a doctor?” Then he asked, “Well, why do you want to be a doctor?” And if I did, I wouldn’t be happy.

Research

Broad Institute

JANUARY 25, 2024

“We’ve come to realize recently that there is a lot more information that we can get from our retina images than we thought was possible,” says senior author Nazlee Zebardast, director of glaucoma imaging at Mass Eye and Ear and an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

Disease

Broad Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Before joining PCL, Trembley served as an instructor and research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. During his doctoral training at the Aab Cardiovascular Institute, he utilized rodent models of heart failure to explore the signaling pathways activated by pressure overload in the heart.

Medical Schools

Broad Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Immunologist Lloyd Bod will take us on a tour of the immune system, and discuss new insights that may help scientists and doctors leverage its cancer-fighting capabilities more effectively.

Medical Schools

biobide

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Leonard Zon’s research group, an expert in Zebrafish research at Harvard Medical School, and a doctor at Boston’s Children’s Hospital found that prostaglandins upregulate blood stem cells, boosting their engraftment after transplantation. This treatment was developed by performing a chemical screening on zebrafish.

Disease

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 17, 2021

Ophthalmologists are physicians who have completed four years of medical school and four years of residency training. They aren’t doctors, according to the American Association of Certified Orthoptists. Opticians, who also are not doctors, don’t treat or diagnose eye conditions. © 2021 HealthDay.

Medical Schools

Broad Institute

MARCH 8, 2024

First author Zoë Levine is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School and graduate student in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad. That’s interesting from a public health perspective because oftentimes in a clinical setting, if someone tests positive for malaria, the doctor will give them antimalarials and stop there.

Research

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Doctors already learn the technique in medical school, noted Dr. Scott Isaacs, spokesman for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and medical director for Atlanta Endocrine Associates. But only one-quarter of patients had consistent teach-back experiences with their doctors, the study found.

Doctors

Broad Institute

JULY 10, 2023

With early experience of biology at its most personal, Martin watched with intense interest as genetics began appearing more frequently in the news while she was in high school. She thought about becoming a doctor when she moved to Seattle for college, but wanted to go beyond treating symptoms to make a longer-term impact on human health.

Disease

Alta Sciences

MARCH 27, 2024

Get to know Eryn with this Q&A: What motivated you to pursue a doctorate degree? Not really, although I contemplated medical school for a while. After a couple of years, I abandoned said boyfriend and ideas of medical school, went to graduate school, and have never looked back. Then fate intervened.

Drug Development

Broad Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2024

“With three patients, we were able to finally classify this as a new disorder,” said co-senior author Anne O'Donnell-Luria , co-director of the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics and an institute member at the Broad, clinical genetics physician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

DNA

Broad Institute

JULY 26, 2022

By Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations July 26, 2022 Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications From immunity to metabolism to mental health, it seems like the gut microbiome has been linked to every aspect of human health and disease. Paper(s) cited Bae M, Cassilly C, et al.

Research

Broad Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

Daniel Hochbaum Daniel Hochbaum Daniel Hochbaum, Harvard Medical School Daniel Hochbaum, Ph.D. Ralph Lawton, Harvard Medical School Ralph Lawton is currently under Dr. Hochbaum’s mentorship and will complete his MD/Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2014 and his B.Sc.

Medical Schools

Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

During my training, I saw US medical school admissions reach parity. In many STEM graduate programs today, even more women are matriculating, earning doctoral degrees, and advancing into academia. There is still more work to be done to address this skew. That gives me hope for greater representation of women in our field.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 18, 2020

To dig further, the doctors looked back at over 10,000 instances where patients had nearly simultaneous pulse oximetry and arterial blood gas measurements. The readings came from 1,333 white patients and 276 Black patients treated between January and July of this year. © 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

Hospitals

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

APRIL 2, 2020

This is of particular concern to doctors whose patients are already taking the medications to control hypertension. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many people have wondered whether taking ACE inhibitors would be helpful or detrimental against coronavirus infection. The team, led by Scott D.

Drug Development

Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dr Alani also directs a clinical program at Boston Medical Center focused on patients with melanoma and other high-risk skin cancers and has been recognized as a 2024 Boston Magazine and Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Dr Alani received her M.D. degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Michigan.

Therapies

Broad Institute

JUNE 21, 2023

By makenziekohler June 23, 2023 Related Claussnitzer Lab first paragraph The field of microscopy has grown immensely over the last fifty years in its ability to extract both quantitative and qualitative data from microscopic images.

Small Molecule

The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2020

Eva Larkai, a fourth-year medical student, led the student group demanding change. A major British medical school is leading the drive to eliminate what it calls “inherent racism” in the way doctors are trained in the UK. And he says the problem is one that all UK medical schools and the wider NHS share.

Medical Schools

Broad Institute

JUNE 1, 2023

The scores could help doctors identify and treat at-risk individuals earlier in pregnancy with existing but underutilized strategies such as low-dose aspirin. They also developed polygenic risk scores, which distill a person’s likelihood of developing a condition down to a single number based on their genes.

Doctors

The Pharma Data

MAY 16, 2021

Scientific Research includes studies from from The University of East Anglia, England, Harvard Medical School, the Cell journal , and the Environmental Working Group. The content of this site is for informational purposes only, and is not intended to replace professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Medical Schools

Policy Prescription

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Harvard doctors and public health experts recommend using the website PharmacyChecker.com to find international online pharmacies to order more affordable prescription drugs for personal importation when domestic savings strategies fail. They offer this advice in a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Online Pharmacies

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Female Doctors Less Likely to Be Promoted to Upper Faculty Ranks. 2, 2020 — Women physicians in academic medical centers are less likely than men to be promoted to upper faculty ranks, according to a study published in the Nov. medical schools. Professional. WEDNESDAY, Dec. Richter, Ph.D., Richter, Ph.D.,

Doctors

Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the future, when doctors give patients cytokine therapies targeting the immune system, they could potentially look in the Immune Dictionary for expected cell-level immune responses. Some patients develop resistance to treatment and we cannot predict who they will be. Did any results surprise you?

Immune Response

The Pharma Data

MAY 13, 2021

Watch The REAL TRUTH…Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You! The information provided that you have just watched is shocking and may go against what your Medical Doctors have informed you about your varicose and spider veins. It’s not doctors who are at fault.

Treatment

The Pharma Data

MAY 14, 2021

Description: In this 8 Episode Diabetes-Fighting Series, I get to meet several doctors, nutritionists, current and former diabetics, from the around the world. As you read the book you will learn the signs and symptoms, the complications, and how a doctor diagnoses and monitors and treats patients with type 2 diabetes.

Doctors

Broad Institute

MAY 2, 2024

In undergrad, I thought about going to medical school, but I didn’t want to work in a hospital. If you find a novel mutation that you target with a drug in a specific cancer type, you can help people in a really impactful way even though you’re not the doctor treating their disease. You think, “I’ve created something new.”

Science

Drug Target Review

MARCH 15, 2024

He has a post-doctorate in virology, viral pathogenesis, viral vector development, and vaccines evaluation from Harvard Medical School, and a PhD in virology/molecular biology. Anis also serves on the scientific and editorial advisory board of Genetic Engineering News at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Engineering

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Experts said the findings give more support to something that’s been advocated, but not commonly done by doctors and nurses: Checking patients’ blood pressure in both arms. Instead, he explained, doctors can consider between-arm differences one “marker” of a patient’s heart disease risk. And then what?

Doctors

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 11, 2021

Dr. Luis Ostrosky, a professor of infectious diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, is among the doctors seeing long haulers. ” In the new study, a large proportion of patients with mild COVID-19 still felt unwell when they saw their doctor over two months later.

Doctors

The Pharma Data

MAY 15, 2021

And I know I went to Harvard Medical School, not Harvard Business…. As always, if you currently have a medical condition or are taking medication, I advise showing a bottle to your doctor before taking it. You CAN have this! it doesn’t have to be hard…. I’d be out of business in a week.

Production

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 27, 2021

But a regular, brisk walk is also a good bet, Regan said, adding you should talk to your doctor if you have questions about the activities you can do. Of course, in the midst of the pandemic, there are limits on in-person group exercise. Schwamm acknowledged that for people new to exercise, “it might not be enjoyable at first.”

Medical Schools

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 20, 2021

One hospital may have a busy ICU, but be able to expand its capacity and recruit doctors with critical-care training who do not normally work in the unit. Luis Ostrosky, a professor of infectious diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston. Harvard Medical School has advice on slowing the spread of COVID-19.

Medical Schools

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It would be easier for patients, who wouldn’t have to juggle fistfuls of daily medications, and for doctors who’d only have to write one prescription. ” There also might be some reluctance among doctors to prescribe a pill loaded with a number of different medications, Yang added.

Health Insurance Companies

The Pharma Data

MAY 13, 2021

If someone were to come to me and say they had decided to become a doctor I would be shocked if they told me they were planning to do it without going to medical school first. The reality is that only YOU have the power to ensure your longevity and quality of life.

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