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Suzanne Benz

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Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a 777-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care delivery network. In July of 2008, the hospital opened the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, the most advanced center of its kind.

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14 NOV	Student Success Jobs Program Receives National Afterschool Innovator Award from MetLife Foundation
	MetLife Managing Director David Murphy presented the Award at a Lights On Afterschool event, held at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The organization received $5,000 to sustain its work.

14 NOV	Brigham and Women's Hospital Announces New President
	After a unanimous vote last evening by the Board of Trustees Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals (BW/F) named Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

14 NOV	New Process for Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation Discovered
	Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found a potential means of controlling differentiation into desired cell types, by demonstrating that sugars play a major role in modulating stem cell differentiation into tissues.

13 NOV	Women’s Health Fall Program at Patriot Place
	Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center in Foxborough will sponsor a free screening and lectures on women’s health issues during the “Women’s Health Fall Program at Patriot Place,” October 20 – November 3.

24 OCT	Implementation of a Rapid HIV Testing Program in an Emergency Department
	Researchers share lessons learned from the experience of implementing an HIV testing program in a busy academic teaching hospital.

24 OCT	Office Visits for Skin Infections Remain Unchanged Since Emergence of Community-Associated MRSA
	In a new study, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sought to determine if the number of SSTI visits also increased in the larger setting of physicians' offices.

23 OCT	Brigham And Women’s Hospital Researchers Receive NIH Awards To Encourage High-Risk Research And Innovation
	Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are recipients of two of the 115 awards, presented from three innovative research programs supported by the NIH Common Fund’s Roadmap for Medical Research: the NIH Director’s Transformative R01 (T-R01) Awards, Pioneer Awards, and New Innovator Awards.

23 OCT	Breast Cancer Risk in Blind Women
	Researchers find that reproductive differences are not responsible for the lower risk of breast cancer in blind women.

23 OCT	Lifetime Maternal Interpersonal Trauma May Increase Occurrence of Asthma and Allergies in Children
	researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard School of Public Health found that interpersonal trauma experienced throughout the mother’s life may have an effect on her baby’s immune development during gestation.

23 OCT	The New England Journal of Medicine and Brigham & Women's Hospital Offer Interactive Medical Cases
	New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), in partnership with Brigham & Women’s Hospital, is now offering a unique online learning tool called Interactive Medical Cases on NEJM.org.

22 OCT	BWH Names Woodmansee Director, Clinical Neuroendocrine Program
	Whitney W. Woodmansee, MD, has been named the Director of the Clinical Neuroendocrine Program in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension and the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).

22 OCT	Brigham and Women’s Hospital Receives National Recognition for Exemplary Outcomes from the American College of Surgeons
	The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) as one of 25 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals in the United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care.

12 SEP	Anticoagulant Shows Promise for Patients with Acute Coronary Symptoms
	An investigational intravenous drug designed to block the formation of blood clots, shows potential to reduce the risk of death, a second heart attack, or other coronary complications compared with acute coronary syndromes.

12 SEP	Hormonal Therapy for Prostate Cancer Increases Risk of Death
	Researchers have now identified the specific underlying health conditions that increase the risk of death in men treated with hormonal therapy for prostate cancer

07 JUL	Hypoglycemia During Hospitalization Linked to Higher Mortality Risk
	Hospitalized Diabetics who develop hypoglycemia have longer stays and higher risk of death.

04 JUL	Largest study of Vitamin D and Omega-3s set to begin soon at Brigham and Women's Hospital
	Researchers will collect data from 20,000 men and women throughout the U.S. on the effects of these supplements on the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease and the potential to reduce health disparities.

04 JUL	Healthy, Older Men Live Longer With Aggressive Prostate Cancer Treatment
	Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), have found that older men, who are otherwise healthy, benefit from aggressive treatment for unfavorable-risk prostate cancer.

18 JUN	Clues to How Blood Forms in Life’s Earliest Stages
	BWH and CHB collaboration examined role biomechanical force plays in embryonic development.

18 JUN	Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals Highlighted in Healthcare Equality Index 2009
	BW/F’s Leadership in Equal Treatment of LGBT Patients Highlighted in Human Rights Campaign Foundation & Gay & Lesbian Medical Association’s Index.

18 JUN	Gleason Score Of 3+4 Is Not Equal To 4+3 In Lethal Prostate Cancer
	Researchers at BWH have shown that Gleason score is a strong predictor of prostate cancer mortality and that mortality rates differ among patients with a Gleason score of seven depending on whether Gleason pattern four is primary or secondary.

17 May	Electronic System Demonstrates Potential To Reduce The Risk Of Adverse Drug Events
	Researchers at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals report that using a computerized application to record and track patients’ medications could decrease the occurrence of potentially harmful medication discrepancies. These findings appear in the April 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

17 May	Smokers Get Help With The Use Of Electronic Health Record
	Researchers implemented an enhancement in the electronic health record to improve rates of smoking cessation.

16 May	Brigham and Women’s Hospital Supports National Healthcare Decisions Day
	Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), along with other national, state and community organizations, are participating in an effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decision-making-an effort that has culminated in the formal designation of April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD).

16 May	BWH Surgeons Perform Facial Transplant
	A Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) plastic surgery team, led by Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, performed a partial face transplant April 9, 2009, the second such procedure to be performed in the U.S.

16 May	A More Direct Delivery of Cancer Drugs to Tumors
	An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors by using specially engineered nanoparticles that can inhibit a signaling pathway and deliver a higher concentration of medication to the specific area.