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MAYDAY FUND ANNOUNCES 2018-19 WINNERS OF THE MAYDAY PAIN AND SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP Twelve pain experts selected to prestigious Fellowship program focused on communications and advocacy for improved pain care NEW YORK (March 9, 2018) – The MAYDAY Fund today announced the selection of twelve experts in pain science and care to be Fellows of The Mayday […]
This story originally appeared here. The Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Michael R. Bruchas, PhD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor in the departments of Anesthesiology and Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, is the recipient of the inaugural Rising Star Award in neuroscience research. To […]
This story originally appeared here. While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United States. The condition develops when an infection triggers an overwhelming immune response, ultimately wreaking havoc on the immune system. Standard treatment involves high doses of antibiotics that fight the infection, but they often […]
The 30th Annual C. R. Stephen Lecture of the Department of Anesthesiology was delivered by Vamsi Mootha, M.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Mootha discussed Mitochondrial Systems Biology: Understanding the Whole from the Parts at the lecture on April 11, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. in […]
This story originally appeared here. Michael Avidan and his colleagues sit in a windowless room in front of a panel of screens tapped into every operating room at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. It’s conceptually similar to an air traffic control tower, except they aren’t tracking airplanes. Relying on customized software, the screens provide synthesized data about patients, […]