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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
hopes he might find some early stage treatments that might prove helpful for his son. Rodakis had a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and had spent the early part of his career as a medical venture... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
16.9 million patients in low- and middle-income countries die due to lack of safe access to surgery; in addition, approximately 85,000 medical staff die after exposure to patient-borne pathogens. SurgiBox aims to make surgery safer for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
along the way. Accessed by a mobile phone, tablet, or web application, the software also builds medical notes throughout the consultation. Those notes, along with the management plan or any necessary referrals, feed directly into a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive for Bristol-Myers Squibb,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
psychiatric treatments for PTSD and found Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, about the new science of psychedelic drugs. “I am not an ‘underground person’ by nature, but I knew I had nothing to lose,” she says. Ames connected with... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
largest in Africa second to South Africa. Senegal was one of the first African countries to come up with a resiliency plan. It included all the necessary health support for patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of biological medicines—therapies created... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
advocate for alternative mental health therapies, including the use of psychedelics. In recent years, that has included exploring the use of ketamine as a treatment for depression, through the creation of the Ketamine Fund with his... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage the day-to-day... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
say, Are you a treatment provider? Are you a medical device? Are you a drug? Are you a software vendor?” The latter seemed like the right answer until Gastfriend realized that software is counted against a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
scientific and technological foundations of medical invention are already straining our existing institutions. By thoughtfully approaching business model innovation, we will be more successful in navigating the opportunities and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast SKYDECK: Hear more of Giusti’s story in her own words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast Fatal to Fearless tells the story of Giusti’s personal journey from diagnosis through treatment and how,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
diagnosis and whether anything could be done. And we were repeatedly told that for his diagnosis, there is still no treatment available. When I got diagnosed with breast cancer, we had access to a medical... View Details