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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing Health View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
leaders and academics, the forum identified a number of important challenges, and offered five "key imperatives" for progress—from making value the central objective to decentralizing care delivery. Several HBS alumni and faculty members... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
consultants in the managed care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, acquired an obstetrics practice in San Diego with $1.6 million in seed capital. The concept of a clinic where midwives and nurses provided quality View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
billion of the excessive costs of U.S. health care while all too many quality measures have worsened. Patients learn — sometimes the hard way — to bring along an assertive, intelligent loved one to protect... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
check—ideally a patient can be injected with Moderna's mRNA, which offers directions, or a specific recipe, to individual cells, which then use it to produce the protein or antibody needed to tackle the problem. In other words, mRNA... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
and microfibers with embedded UVA and UVB titanium dioxide blockers,” explained the Sydney Morning Herald (December 7, 2011). “The range is designed to look and feel like everyday clothing while shielding people from cancer-causing UV rays.” Dermatologists treating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
legislation to revive the ailing middle class as business groups dig in for a fight on Capitol Hill. Model Patient The Massachusetts approach to health-care reform, enacted under former governor Mitt Romney (MBA ’74), is often cited as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
late 2010. He was satisfied with the quality of his care until, hovering above the spittoon, he spotted black fungal algae encircling the drain. Something about the entire business struck Singh, an entrepreneur with experience in... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Today the foundation remains focused on education—it’s “an old message but it’s still the right message,” Smyth concludes—but also has expanded into patient support and research, becoming the biggest nongovernmental funder, and into... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope to patients who battle rare cancers. Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope, love, and laughter to those who knew her and to the thousands who have been and will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
injector, which uses a "liquid needle" only 100 micrometers in diameter, delivers drugs through the skin at any location, at any desired depth and volume. "We believe our patented technology will transform the delivery of medicines and improve the View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model Associate Professor Tarun Khanna examines a “Robin Hood” cardiac hospital in India, which treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. His findings? A solvent, successful model of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
based in Boca Raton, Florida, and we service all 50 states with what are known as traveling nurses. Our role is to provide the nurses that the hospitals, for one reason or another, cannot find on their own so they can properly take care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
and leading thinkers to wrestle with the Gordian knot of healthcare reform. The approach to reforming healthcare has been "hung up in static rather than dynamic thinking," said Christensen, who moderated a panel on "Improving the Patient... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
was so lost in the black hole of Zoom meetings and other pandemic-related frustrations that it was easy to forget the necessity of showing unqualified love, concern, and attention—the sort of care I remember receiving from my grandmother.... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The road to higher-quality, lower-cost health care leads straight to better management. That was the central message a panel of experts convened by the HBS Health Care Initiative delivered last week to a... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
partnership between a for-profit entity and a nonprofit organization. Organjet is a for-profit company that provides on-demand private jet and ground logistics for patients to travel for an organ transplant from one region to another. In... View Details