Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Boston
Massachusetts
02115
Tel: 617-732-5500
Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/
About Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital is home for one of the most powerful Biomedical Research Institutes in the world. Over 500 scientists and $240 million in research grants are committed to bringing the latest advances in medical care and basic science to the BWH.Research Departments include:
Last Updated 8-24-01
332 articles about Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Clinical Catch-Up: May 18-22
5/26/2020
Non-COVID-19 clinical trial updates are outweighing COVID-19 studies, particularly with the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting coming up soon. Here’s a look. -
Large International Study of Chloroquine for COVID-19 Shows No Benefit and Significant Harm
5/22/2020
The study found that of the 15,000 patients who received either of the drugs were almost twice as likely to die compared to the patients who did not receive them. The research was published in the journal The Lancet. -
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 22, 2020.
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Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
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Bayer, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital open joint lab for research of new treatments for chronic lung diseases
9/24/2019
Investment of over USD 30 million spanning five years to research and develop new treatments for chronic lung diseases
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Bayer, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital have launched a joint laboratory to research new drugs to treat chronic lung diseases.
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Krishnan Suthanthiran, President & Founder of TeamBest Companies & Best Cure Foundation, Presents the AAPM Best Award to its 2019 Recipients in San Antonio, Texas, at the AAPM Annual Meeting
7/15/2019
On July 15th, Krishnan Suthanthiran, President & Founder of TeamBest Companies and Best Cure Foundation, presented the AAPM Best Award to the 2019 recipients at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine taking place in San Antonio, Texas, USA July 14–17, 2019.
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Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
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Research Roundup: Inactive Drug Ingredients, Whole-Body Regeneration Genes, Alzheimer’s Tests and...
3/22/2019
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them. -
IBM Watson Health Invests in Research Collaborations with Leading Medical Centers to Advance the Application of AI to Health
2/13/2019
Initial projects focus on practical application of AI to improve care, enhance health team workflow, and better understand human-machine interactions
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The idea of swallowing a needle seems like a very bad idea. But a research team at MIT has developed a capsule about the size of a blueberry that holds a tiny needle that, after being swallowed, injects insulin into the stomach.
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Cancer Research UK, a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, recently announced its latest Grand Challenge winners. This cancer research grant awards a series of £20 million wards to international, multidisciplinary teams that focus on unique and new approach...
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Readers' Picks: Top 10 Stories of 2018
12/28/2018
As we look back over the year, we noticed some stories just grabbed readers more than others. Here’s a look at the top 10 stories of the year, including job cuts, best-selling drugs, up-and-coming companies,scandals, clinical trials, and more. -
In writing literally hundreds of stories this year, two BioSpace writers, Alex Keown and Mark Terry, found certain stories particularly intriguing or impactful. Some of those were such big topics that they were covered over a series of stories. Looking back at 2018, here are their Top 10.
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Yet another company has launched to develop liquid biopsies. Founded and headed by Omid Farokhzad, formerly a professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Seer is based in San Francisco.
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Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are leading the call to remove the papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, a pioneer in the field of cardiac research.
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November 16 Research Roundup: Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer, the Mighty Mitochondria, and Weightl...
11/16/2018
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them. -
NHLBI Halts Heart Failure Study After Retracted Papers Raise Concern Over Controversial Stem Cell...
10/30/2018
In the wake of a significant number of journal articles being retracted due to falsified data, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, is halting a clinical trial that is testing an experimental stem cell therapy for heart patients. -
Navigation Sciences Acquires Exclusive Rights to Novel Technology for Minimally-Invasive, Lung Cancer and Other Soft Tissue Procedures
10/23/2018
Image guided, Intra-operative imaging, has potential to improve patient outcomes, increase operating room efficiency and surgical precision
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Another scientific paper has been retracted by the New England Journal of Medicine. The noted journal said it retracted a paper on evidence of human lung stem cells following an investigation that revealed images used in the article had been manipulated.