In Print
Photo by Graham Ramsay
Focus:
Pain Promoter Plays Unexpected Role in Central Nervous System
Clifford Woolf and colleagues have discovered that during inflammatory pain, the enzyme Cox-2 produces a sensitizing signal in the central nervous system as well as at the site of injury. The findings suggest that the most effective painkillers may be those that cross the blood–brain barrier, quelling pain signals in the central nervous system.
BBS Bulletin
HSTconnector
MedEd News
Mentations
On The Brain
|
|
Headlines
Study Shows Regular Exercise Reduces All-Cause Mortality in Women
Upcoming
George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics:
Some Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care
Dame Cicely Saunders
Monday, April 23
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Robert H. Ebert Lecture:
And Still I Rise
Levi Watkins Jr., Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 27
5:00-6:00 p.m.
|
|
Spotlight
Photo by Graham Ramsay |
Student Research Gets Limelight
Soma Weiss Day, April 12, gave students an opportunity to share their research with the Harvard medical community. Posters attracted students, faculty, and staff from across the Longwood Medical Area.
|
|
Student Scene
Photo by Jeff Cleary |
On Dissection and Healing
A March 20 symposium on healing struck a chord in Harsha Reddy. He explains that the traditional current of medical education runs largely toward breaking subjects down piece by piece. But the practice of healing, he says, counters this direction since it builds toward wholeness.
|
|
Call for Writers
Are you a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing three to six columns a year for the Forum section of Focus and Student Scene section of WebWeekly. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.
|
