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- 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
East, and in Cuba, where he was introduced to it last April while attending an ozone symposium. Murray reports that results from the treatment to date have been unspectacular but decidedly positive, with some new sensation in his affected... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
unfiltered data: history, symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
access to immediate help in the event of a medical, police, or fire emergency. RAJU’S BRAINCHILD: In just two years, EMRI’s ambulances have delivered life-saving medical service to more than 11,000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
options.) To develop FertilityIQ’s assessment form, Jake and Deborah sought input from close to 50 other couples as well as three fertility doctors to ensure that they captured a full spectrum of concerns outside their own. In addition to providing demographic and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
a one-time treatment that’s going to make your lupus go away for life, then I don’t have to be governed by the economics of pill manufacturing — especially when long-term medications may prove harmful over... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development of new treatments and, one day,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
technologies for drug discovery.) And patients with previously unmet medical needs can now get treatments that were not available before. That should be inspiring, he reminded the audience. Economic... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
the possibilities, Arjun sought “a better understanding of how to go from lab work to medical product” by taking an internship (after fulfilling his medical residency in Sydney, Australia) with Celtic... View Details
- 11 Jun 2016
- News
Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click
(Talia Herman for The New York Times) (Talia Herman for The New York Times) Startups often begin around a pain point. For Jake Anderson (MBA 2010), that point was a painful one: Due to a preexisting medical condition, he and his wife... View Details
- January 2013 (Revised February 2013)
- Supplement
Shouldice Hospital Limited (B)
By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell
Heskett, James, and Roger Hallowell. "Shouldice Hospital Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 913-405, January 2013. (Revised February 2013.)
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Filling the White Space
companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes... View Details
Larissa Bifano
computer databases, solid state devices and wireless positioning systems; medical technologies, including cancer treatment therapies, health and fitness monitoring and implantable devices; and various other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shaan Gandhi
Every physician and medical student remembers the first patient who died on his or her watch. I remember mine. Her name was Sarah, and she came to us in respiratory distress. After running some tests, we concluded that she likely had a... View Details