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RACHEL D. COHEN ( READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON SHOTS: HEALTH NEWS FROM NPR) Sarah Spiegel, a third-year student at New York Medical College, pushed for more education on LGBT health issues for students. When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture...

Researchers at the Boston VA are finding that exposure to blasts even without concussion can cause structural damage to the brain. Click here to read the full article on NPR.

Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD , Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Mass. Eye and Ear, has been named the first incumbent of the Grousbeck Family Chair in Gene Therapy at Mass. Eye and Ear. Dr. Vandenberghe is one of the world’s...

Saghar Bagheri, MD, Clinical Research Fellow at Mass. Eye and Ear under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, has been invited to participate in the Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award Competition at the ARVO Annual Meeting. She received one of the top five scored abstracts in the Retina...

Konstantina Sampani, MD , Clinical Research Fellow at The Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, received ARVO's 2019 Science Communications Training Fellowship. The one year program - awarded to just 20 ARVO members - trains young scientists to become more effective communicators of...

Precision medicine involves using genetic information specific to a patient’s tumor to choose the most efficacious therapy for that individual. Identifying mechanisms that make certain tumors responsive to a particular drug, but not others, known as biomarker discovery, is vital to precision...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD— a Harvard Medical School Instructor in Ophthalmology and glaucoma specialist at Mass. Eye and Ear—has been selected for the Harvard Vision Clinician Scientist Development Program (K12). This program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will provide a customized and...

Fourth-year Harvard Otolaryngology resident Alessandra Colaianni, MD, recently published an editorial in the New York Times. This article shares her experience with a patient who had a rare disorder known as toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome. This condition is a severe skin reaction, most often...

We have released two preprints exploring mosaic chromosomal alterations in UK Biobank ( N~500K; Loh et al. bioRxiv) and BioBank Japan ( N~200K; Terao et al. bioRxiv). Highlights of these studies include discovery of several new risk loci at which acquired mutations systematically duplicate inherited...

A lovely range of events happening around the HMS community in honor of Pride Month. These events are a great way to connect with the community at your hospital and to learn more about LGBTQ health equity. If you are looking for a book to understand the history of the movement we are a part of, I...