Topic: Harvard Medical School

Magnetic Blood Cleaning Procedure Could Save Lives, Star-Trek Style

Here's a medical innovation that's pretty amazing: It's a blood filter that could actually reduce deaths from sepsis in hospitals. The system works by removing dangerous bacteria not by using fine porous filtration, but instead the ...READ»

In Business, Love Means Learning to Say You’re Sorry

Sure, we all like to talk about the new trend toward transparency in the corporate world, but when a company messes up, the old watch-your-back, cover-your-tush, and shift-the-blame-to-someone-else mindset tends to kick in. The ...READ»

Patients, Grasshopper

There was a two-page feature in last week's issue of Time that reminded me of a blog entry posted by a reader during last fall's FC Now BlogJam. (We'll celebrate the blog's third anniversary this August.) Nathan Thornbourgh takes a ...READ»

Positive Deviance — A Surgeon’s Notes

It’s hard not to be both amazed and irritated by the career of Atul Gawande. Most of us struggle along in a single profession; Gawande is at the top of three demanding professions at once. He is best known as a staff writer for ...READ»

H1N1 iPhone Apps Reach Fever Pitch, Prices Are Nothing to Sneeze At

Reports about the new swine flu surfaced last March. By April, there was an App for that. Now there are close to 30 swine flu-related Apps in Apple's Store, the most recent from Harvard Medical School. The HMS Mobile Swine Flu ...READ»

The Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Ben Campbell in the Movie "21"

Vison. Hard work. Team work. These are all qualities that good leaders employ. It's also how Ben Campbell, the star character in the film "21," used them to his advantage. Here's what we can learn from an MIT mastermind ...READ»

Gates Foundation Grants $100K Apiece To 81 Wild Ideas

Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»

Dirty Dancing, Consultant-Style

Consultant Dubunking UnitREAD»

Working for the Boss From Hell

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

This Is Your Brain on Architecture

Neuroscientists are uncovering how the design of your home or office can make you smarter, faster, happier. Is brain science the next big design trend?READ»

Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype -- and the Price

The push for electronic medical records has stirred controversy -- but their potential is immeasurable.READ»

• The Doctor of the Future

The Secret of Life

The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning.READ»

An Ad Agency That Wants to Change the World?

Saatchi & Saatchi offers awards for ground-breakingly innovative ideas that have the potential to make a positive difference, and even change the world.READ»

• 10 Ideas That Could Change The World

The Doctor of the Future

Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today.READ»

• Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype--and the Price
• Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like Medical Platform
• Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

Pot Proponent Just Says No

Medical marijuana's elder statesman is not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can be separated from the psychoactive effects -- or that cannabis should be "pharmaceuticalized."READ»

(Not) the Same Old Story

Eden Alternative is a change-minded organization determined to save a critically ill patient: long-term care for the elderly. The nursing-home industry should be about living, argues founder Bill Thomas, not about dying. Here's his prescription -- and lessons for changing any industry.READ»

Leadership Induced Stress

We all know that stress is a major killer. But did you know that bad leaders are a leading cause of heart attacks and other illnesses? You can change the dynamic.READ»

Disrupter - Stephen Friend

The driving force behind a genomics technology is conducting a second experiment: figuring out whether he can transplant the energy of a startup into the giant that bought his company.READ»

Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless -- and very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's corner offices.READ»