Sephen Pasceri, 55, shot and killed cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Michael Davidson on Jan. 20, leaving the medical community in total shock, especially at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. It became clear relatively soon that Pasceri’s reasoning for killing Davidson was because he was convinced that a drug prescribed to his mother following her surgery […]
Elizabeth G. Nabel, cardiologist and president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, was named the National Football League’s first chief medical and health adviser Monday. Nabel said in a statement that in addition to this new role, she will remain at the hospital and continue her work as a professor at Harvard Medical School. […]
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Massachusetts biotech Blend Therapeutics just raked in $21 million to advance its a new, and rather interesting, class of cancer therapeutics. It’s using the dollars to grow its Pentarin platform, which creates novel, miniature biologic drug conjugates that are encapsulated in nanoparticles. The funding will also help advance a separate drug candidate, BTP-114, closer to the […]
Instead of making money the reward for its digital health startup pitch contest, Brigham and Women’s Hospital iHub innovation center put another hot commodity up for grabs: collaboration with clinicians and executives. Ten finalists competed in its Shark Tank-style innovation contest this week. They were all solutions that addressed either the patient and family experience […]
Cognoptix, Inc. claims to have created a working, in-office, non-invasive eye-scan that detects Alzheimer’s earlier in patients. The SAPPHIRE II tracks a beta amyloid (“Ab”) signature in the eyes of potential Alzheimer’s patients. In a 10-subject, proof-of-concept clinical trial, the drug-device picked up a 200 percent differentiation factor between five healthy volunteers and five patients […]
Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boston hospital that last year performed the nation's first face transplant, now plans to offer hand transplants under an experimental program announced Monday, the Boston Globe reports.
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Researchers led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Brigham & Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School have discovered a molecular pathway that works through the immune system to regenerate damaged kidney tissues.
Dr. Pablo Riera Ros and Dr. Firouz Daneshgari will take over radiology and urology, respectively, in July.