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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School has more than 7,500 full-time faculty working in 11 academic departments located at the School's Boston campus or in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 17 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes. Those affiliates include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Forsyth Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Joslin Diabetes Centre, Judge Baker Children's Centre, Immune Disease Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and VA Boston Healthcare System.

http://hms.harvard.edu/
News articles associated with 'Harvard Medical School' [chronologically, reverse order]

Pay-for-performance does not improve patient health

— 26 Jan 2011 18:07 | Health

As news outlets throughout Europe and the U.S. report on the plummeting health of Western adults and children, there is no shortage of culprits. One villain often bandied about is the…

Mortality rates are an unreliable metric for assessing hospital quality, study finds

— 4 Jan 2011 20:53 | Health

Is quality in the eye of the beholder? Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have found wide disparities among four common measures of hospital-wide…

Genome of extinct Siberian human sheds new light on modern human origins

— 4 Jan 2011 20:50 | Geology and palaeontology

The sequencing of the nuclear genome from an ancient finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows that the cave dwellers were neither Neanderthals nor modern humans…

Close proximity leads to better science

— 16 Dec 2010 17:43 | Health

Absence makes your heart grow fonder, but close-quarters may boost your career…

Battle of the sexes, fruit-fly style

— 25 Nov 2010 16:45 | Biology

Pity the female fruit fly. Being a looker is simply not enough. To get a date, much less a proposal, you have to act like a girl, even smell like one. Otherwise, you might just have…

Rare disease reveals new path for creating stem cells

— 22 Nov 2010 09:58 | Health

As debilitating as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare…

Global health leaders advocate for expanding cancer care in developing countries

— 16 Aug 2010 08:35 | Health

Once thought to be a problem primarily in the developed world, cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in poorer countries. Almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million cancer…

Competing for a mate can shorten lifespan

— 10 Aug 2010 09:02 | Health

'Love stinks!' the J. Geils band told the world in 1980, and while you can certainly argue whether or not this tender and ineffable spirit of affection has a downside, working hard…

Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand

— 23 Jun 2010 11:45 | Technology

By emulating nature's design principles, a team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created…

Structure of inner-ear protein is key to both hearing and inherited deafness

— 17 Apr 2010 10:35 | Health

Rising from the top surface of each of the specialised receptor cells in our inner ears is a bundle of sensory cilia that responds to the movement of sound. As sensitive as they are…

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