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HBS - The year in Review
exceeding Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standards. Innovation in Executive Education Executive Education was able... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
early in our marriage, we lost our first daughter. She was just eight months old. Her name was Tanya. She was born with an immune disease that had no cure. And that was a very hard thing to comprehend and cope with. And then we had... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
formerly was CEO of bioMérieux. He joined the company in 2011 after seeing impressive data indicating Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat rare diseases and cancer—using technology that was inexpensive to produce. The company is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
potential to change how doctors diagnose and treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. Samzelius and his team at NeuraMetrix, based in the Bay Area, had been studying typing cadence, measuring how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
The Last Frontier
state for people with debilitating but nonterminal diseases like his to receive, with a doctor’s assistance, drugs with which they may take their own lives. Explained Gardner, “Why do this? I want to be involved in public life. I was... View Details
- Portrait Project
Allison Kotzin
like my father. Although he was given a death sentence at age 42, my Dad remained positive and focused on his passion for life. My Dad's own motto was: "This disease may ultimately kill me, but it will never defeat me." Dad was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
investing, and policy, but I didn’t want to move too far from the hard science. I couldn’t have handcrafted a more perfect program.” — Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022) The ultimate goal of biotech innovation should be ambitious, says Chandra. “We don’t just want to treat... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Genomic Research. Even the impetus for common diseases such as diabetes and hypertension continues to elude scientists, he said. Eric S. Lander But that will change. The major achievement that underlies biology and medicine today is that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- Fast Answer
Health care: consumer expenditure
Where can I find data on health care consumer expenditure? You may browse or search the following resource by using keywords: health care consumer spending: United States: Statista CMS National Health Expenditure Data Centers for View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds leadership positions in anticancer... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Hospitals: statistics (US)
style="line-height: 20.8px;"> by AHA) Incidence & Prevalence Database - world's epidemiology data including some surgical patient volumes Centers... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
accelerate discoveries. “We built an organization we would want to invest in ourselves,” observes Greg. “We need to broaden the net and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergies and across disease states to... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
Product Development & Marketing, where Product Development Specialists and Breeders explained the process for developing new tomato varieties. Many different factors (e.g., consumer preferences such as taste and shape, disease... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
emigrated from Korea. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, Kim went to work for a biotech startup, Ceres Nanosciences. The company makes nanoparticles that improve early and accurate detection for View Details