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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
early in our marriage, we lost our first daughter. She was just eight months old. Her name was Tanya. She was born with an immune disease that had no cure. And that was a very hard thing to comprehend and cope with. And then we had...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
Cytokinetics, Inc., a South San Francisco–based company that focuses on treatments for debilitating diseases that compromise muscle function, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), heart failure, and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 11 May 2011
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A New Era of Entrepreneurship
- 10 Jul 2017
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Holistic care teams can finally revolutionize healthcare
- 28 Apr 2011
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Harvard Business School Holds 15th Annual Business Plan Contest
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
business of delivering health care than making a diagnosis and prescribing medication,” she says. Today, as cofounder and CEO of Systole, a healthtech startup, Lee is developing a personalized, physician-driven digital exercise program for patients living with chronic...
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- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for rare View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In the Driver's Seat
toyed with the notion for Fanz before. But in 1999, when one of his newborn twin sons, Jackson Roscoe, died shortly after birth due to congenital heart disease complications,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from infectious to noncommunicable...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
University of Canterbury in New Zealand, in addition to her studies, Sommer was a catalyst for improved ser-vices nationwide for students with disabilities. “Effecting national policy on an issue so close to my heart was a terrific...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of Public Health took top honors for...
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- 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...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Better Care at Lower Cost
doctor’s attention, he explained. Innovations like MinuteClinic that reach previously underserved consumers or provide benefits to those overserved by doctor-based care have the potential to reshape the health-care industry, he added. The development of new treatments...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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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...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
the inside, in their hearts and minds, they are all just like you and me. The Island of the Fours Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future By Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) Skyhorse The Island of the Four Ps, a spinoff of Ed Hajim’s...
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