Archive: 04/11/2014

Patients with emergency-diagnosed lung cancer report barriers to seeing their GP

Many patients whose lung cancer is diagnosed as an emergency in hospital reported difficulties in previously seeing their GP, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference ...

Nov 4, 2014

Startup tackles nasty infection with first public stool bank

Mark Smith PhD '14 vividly remembers the first conversation he and a colleague had with venture capitalists through MIT's Venture Mentoring Service about the concept that would lead to OpenBiome, the nation's first public ...

Nov 4, 2014

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Adjusting your body clock when the time changes

As we reset our clocks and watches for daylight saving time, it's a good opportunity to think about our body clocks as well. Our bodies naturally operate on 24-hour cycles, called circadian rhythms, that respond to external ...

Nov 4, 2014

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Improving patient safety in our hospitals

Hospitals are dangerous places. This week, the Health Quality and Safety Commission released 'Making Our Health and Disability Services Safer', a report summarising 454 events of patients who were injured or died due to errors ...

Nov 4, 2014

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Helping your loved one stop smoking

Did you know using tobacco products is a preventable cause of death? In the United States, it ranks No. 1 as a cause we can prevent through behavioral change alone.

Nov 4, 2014

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New tool for testing drugs for prostate cancer

Many men are growing moustaches this month as part of Movember to raise awareness and funds for improving men's health, but do you know where this money goes?

Nov 4, 2014

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Can (and should) happiness be a policy goal?

How does an individual's happiness level reflect societal conditions? A new article out today in the first issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) finds that similar to how GDP measures the ...

Nov 4, 2014