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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
changed the world at breathtaking speed. From that perspective, it seemed “inadequate and unacceptable,” as he puts it, that so little progress had been made to treat a dreaded disease identified more than a century ago and now afflicting... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects.... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain damage and View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
parts will be used to replace diseased internal organs such as coronary arteries, the esophagus, and the ureter. Playing a key role in this landmark moment for regenerative medicine was Harvard Bioscience, Inc. of Holliston,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
the underserved. “I’ve been blessed, and I believe very strongly in the importance of giving.” Smart money: The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, a new World Bank financial program that provides surge funding to prevent a disease... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
become destinations for “medical tourists” from the West. Meanwhile, the country’s infant and maternal death rates are high, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria are still far too prevalent. Chidambaram concluded by... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, had a brand problem: the disease it addressed was no longer known as juvenile diabetes, as children and adults were being diagnosed in equal numbers. Pitter-Armand was charged with repositioning the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
the team started exploring chronic disease management, with a launch slated for later this year. But now that they’ve “bottled” the process, their technology could be applied to almost any area of behavior change—financial savings,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
cross subsidies and charity. The cost of moving to universal insurance will be less than sometimes supposed because much is already being spent on care for the uninsured, and there will be savings from providing preventive care and View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
distant, how to maintain a routine and avoid depression, and how to involve others in the recovery process. The easy-to-read advice Cohen presents comes from her own experience with the disease and from conversations with other patients,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Ossium Health, the world's first bone marrow bank from deceased organ donors with the goal of providing better transplant options to patients with diseases such as sickle cell, leukemia, and lymphoma; and Sylvatica Biotech, which develops... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
and people.” Hamermesh notes that only one or two disease foundations currently have a venture philanthropy fund. In addition, more and more private-sector companies are focusing their efforts on a single disease. “Those are both areas of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Christopher Poliquin (now assistant professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management), were at first unsure about how they could have an effect on a dire statistic: Nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occur annually, almost 15,000 of which are homicides,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure and heart View Details