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In battle to save hemlocks, hope rests on a beetle

Armed with a Wiffle Ball bat and a canvas sheet, entomologist David Mausel is scouring forests across New England for an ally. That ally - a small jet-black beetle - feasts on the even tinier but voracious hemlock woolly adelgid, which is ravaging the ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Virginia Tech

It’s a scream

As a child, Kathy Sherman used to sneak into the basement late at night to watch movies that scared her so much she couldn’t sleep. Now she’s a florist during the day, but on her own time Sherman organizes meetings of horror fans and visits haunted ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  National Institutes of Health,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Therapists say attacks on them rare

Assaults on therapists, such as the stabbing of a doctor by a psychiatric patient in a Massachusetts General Hospital clinic yesterday, capture widespread attention, but several mental health professionals said such events are rare. Still, they said, ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON AND LIZ KOWALCZYK, Boston Globe,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  Harvard University,  Bellevue Hospital,  University of Illinois

People are still evolving, heart study numbers say

Charles Darwin famously studied evolution in the Galapagos Islands. Now a team of scientists has chosen a decidedly less exotic locale to study the subject - Framingham. Residents of the Boston suburb have long participated in a landmark study of their ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Yale University,  Charles Darwin,  University of Pennsylvania,  Harvard University

Home is where the heat is off

At a time when most people are contemplating whether to give in and turn up the thermostat, Simon Hare and his family are embarking on a bold experiment in green living: a winter with no heat. Their modest, two-story cottage in Roxbury will be warmed ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Tufts University

Hold still, mummy, this won’t hurt a bit

It was the oddest of scenes: A neurosurgeon delicately threaded a scope up the neck and into the skull of a disembodied, 4,000-year-old mummified head. Sweating with concentration, another doctor clamped a molar and began to rock it gently back and ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  Brown University

Poison gas may carry a medical benefit

For more than a century, carbon monoxide has been known as a deadly toxin. In an 1839 story, Edgar Allan Poe wrote of “miraculous lustre of the eye’’ and “nervous agitation’’ in what some believe are descriptions of carbon monoxide poisoning, and today, ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Edgar Allan Poe,  National Institutes of Health,  University of California, Los Angeles,  Duke University

Harvard team grows heart muscle

Harvard researchers have created a strip of pulsing heart muscle from mouse embryonic stem cells, a step toward the eventual goal of growing replacement parts for hearts damaged by cardiovascular disease. The new work, to be published in the journal ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston geneticist shares Nobel

A Boston scientist was awarded a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yesterday for helping to unravel a fundamental conundrum in genetics - work that began with yeast and an organism found in pond scum but three decades later is ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  Harvard Medical School,  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,  Johns Hopkins University,  Elizabeth H Blackburn

Future MDs will put their DNA to the test

A group of doctors training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center started a unique program last week to learn about genetic tests marketed to consumers, placing them in the vanguard of preparations to guide patients through the dawning Wild West age ...

From CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Joel Hirschhorn

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