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Welcome Letter

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Dear Colleagues: The accelerated pace of molecular discoveries during the past two decades, coupled with an evolving “precision medicine” model in healthcare, are fueling an increase in the number of people who undergo genetic testing. In Ophthalmology, genetic testing is still in its early stages...

General Guidelines for Genetic Testing

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Offer genetic testing to patients whose clinical findings suggest a Mendelian disorder with a known gene mutation. If you are unfamiliar with the specific testing required, encourage the involvement of a board-certified medical geneticist, genetic counselor, or both for all genetic tests. This will...

Integrating Genetic Testing into Clinical Care

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Patients with High-Risk Macular Degeneration Show Improvement with High-Dose Statin Treatment

News: February 04, 2016

A phase I/II clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that some patients taking high doses of atorvastatin (cholesterol-lowering medication) had complete resolution of lipid deposits in the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the...

Faculty Visit to Haiti

News: February 02, 2016

The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II, MD, and Shizuo Mukai, MD, returned after their initial faculty visit in June 2015. The focus of this...

Participate in a Sleep Study

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Healthy Participants: The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is looking for healthy participants without psychiatric or medical conditions, ages 18-45 who are interested in participating in a study on the effects of repeated exposure to insomnia symptoms. The study investigates the relationship...

Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Disease Center

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Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center (HDDC) The HDDC is an NIH-funded Center that serves a broad community of scientists conducting basic and translational research relevant to the gastrointestinal tract. The HDDC facilitates multidisciplinary research and collaboration among independent...

Welcome to the Harvard Digestive Disease Center

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Epithelial and Stem Cells

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The HDDC members active in this group are basic cell and developmental biologists, including a strong group of stem cell and tissue engineering biologists, who are broadening and deepening the longstanding focus of the HDDC on intestinal epithelial cell biology. Leaders: David Breault, MD, PhD &...

Mucosal Immunology

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Theme 2 investigators are basic scientists probing the cellular and molecular basis of adaptive and innate immunity critical to mucosal defense. Given the intense relationship between the immune system and lumenal microbes that plays out across the intestinal epithelial barrier, it is not surprising...