Claus Receives NCI Grant through Patient Engagement and Cancer Genome Sequencing (PECGS) Centers
Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD, of the Department of Neurosurgery, received an approximately thirteen-million-dollar grant from the National Cancer Institutes (NCI) as part of an initiative called “Patient Engagement and Cancer Genome Sequencing (PECGS) (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - January 13, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Immunotherapy Combination Shown to Benefit Some Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Resistant to Single Immunotherapy
A combination of two drugs that open the floodgates to an immune system attack on cancer curtailed tumor growth in some patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that was resistant to a single immunotherapy agent, results from a recent clinica (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - January 13, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Military Medical Treatment Facilities Could Improve Access for Emergency C-Sections
Offering emergency c-sections could improve care for pregnant patients, address inequities and support military readiness (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - January 10, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Buring Receives 2021 Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award
Julie E. Buring, ScD, of the Division of Preventive Medicine, was recently awarded the Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Institutional Service to Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM). (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - January 6, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Clinical trial reveals that omega-3 fish oil supplements do not help prevent depression
Findings help clarify mixed results from previous studies. (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - December 20, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Comparison of Intimate Partner Violence Injuries Among Sexes Uncovers Higher Level of Severity for Male Victims
Study may help Emergency Department clinicians recognize key IPV trends among men and women (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - December 16, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Liu Receives 2021 Annual Excellence in Research Award from Department of Psychiatry
Cindy Liu, PhD, of the Department of Newborn Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry, received the 2021 Annual Excellence in Research Award from Brigham and Women ’s Department of Psychiatry for her outstanding research on the measurement and mechan (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - December 10, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Butovsky Recognized as World Expert in Microglia
Oleg Butovsky, PhD, of the Department of Neurology, has been recognized as an Expertscape World Expert in Microglia. Expertscape ’s PubMed-based algorithm granted Butowsky this distinction for ranking in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about Microgli (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - December 8, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Brigham and Women ’s Hospital Launches Clinical Trial of Nasal Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease
First human trial for intranasal vaccine for AD represents culmination of 20 years of research led at the Brigham (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 16, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Brigham and Women ’s Hospital Launches Clinical Trial of Nasal Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease
First human trial for intranasal vaccine for AD represents culmination of 20 years of research led at the Brigham (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 16, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Feature Brigham Breakthroughs
The studies highlighted below represent only a sample of the cutting-edge research that experts from Brigham and Women ’s Hospital will present at the conference (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 15, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Carey, Pujol Receive Grants from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Vincent Carey, PhD, of the Channing Division of Network Medicine, and Sonia Pujol, PhD, of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology were awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) through its Essential Open Sourc (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 9, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Novel tool for reporting symptoms after vaccination helped health care workers discern injection side effects from COVID-19 symptoms
Guidance provided by new tool helped preserve workforce and promote a safe hospital environment during COVID-19 surge (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 4, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Brigham Receives AHA Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
Brigham and Women ’s Hospital was awarded the American Heart Association’s 2021 Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. This award honors hospitals that demonstrate a commitment to providing heart failure patients wi (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 3, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Walt Awarded Northwestern University ’s Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine
David Walt, PhD, of the Department of Pathology, was awarded the $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine from Northwestern University for his work developing ultrasensitive single-molecule array detection technology, which is impactin (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - November 2, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news