At Medical School, Berwick Tells of Patient’s Death
Urges new doctors to consider curing injustice as part of their role
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Articles tagged Harvard Medical School
Berwick Is Medical, Dental Schools’ Class Day Speaker
The healthcare reformer will speak on May 23.
5.11.12
Animal Research Reforms
Harvard Medical School’s primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care
4.19.12
Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’91, Ph.D. ’93, Nominated to Lead World Bank
Harvard alumnus, now Dartmouth College president, takes on a new global role.
3.23.12
Scientists Grow Eggs from Ovarian Stem Cells
The findings could have implications for treating infertility.
2.28.12
A Long Way from Longwood
Excerpt from Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin’s memoir
2.17.12
Two Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Harvard’s George Church, genomics pioneer, and William George, healthcare and management leader, are recognized.
2.10.12
Brevia
A foreign-policy pundit at Commencement, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, stem-cell center, the Fogg under wraps, and more
12.16.11
Chef’s Knives and Cardiologists
Healthier doctors, healthier patients?
6.16.11
Brevia
HBS building boomlet and innovation lab, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, HMS Center for Primary Care, studying “institutional corruption,” and other University news
12.16.10
Medical School Receives Gift for Primary-Care Center
The center aims to boost primary care’s status through education, leadership, and research.
10.28.10
The Politics of Paying for HIV Care
In agreeing to help administer PEPFAR (President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Harvard chose in part to step outside its traditional missions of training and research. But now that funding may be waning.
8.19.10
Conflicts of Interest, Revisited
As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.
8.19.10
In Other Financial News…
Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals
8.19.10
Harvard Medical School Revises Conflicts-of-Interest Policies
A comprehensive review of practices at the interface of academia and industry