Health

 A medical home offers each patient a personal clinician with a practice that provides better access and effective care coordination within the context of an ongoing relationship.  The Commonwealth Fund stresses that the emphasis on primary care reduces costs and improves quality.  For example, a medical home pilot project at Geisinger Health Systems in Pennsylvania resulted in a 20% reduction in hospital admissions.  In a medical home model, primary care clinicians and allied professionals provide conventional diagnostic and therapeutic services, as well as coordination of care for patient

The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program addresses healthcare disparities and cardiovascular disease in African American men through creativity, innovation and hard work. In barbershops, volunteers screen men for diabetes, check their blood pressure and educate them about the risk of smoking and the health benefits of exercising and eating well. The program's goal this year is to hold screenings in 750 barbershops and reach 25,000 men in 50 cities. By spring 2009, the campaign had already hit New Orleans, Chicago, St.

An international research team, led by scientists from California and the Phillipines, recently succeeded in the use of precision breeding to create a species of rice that can withstand the floods that often contribute to food scarcity in developing nations.  The researchers isolated a gene called 'Sub1" that is tolerant to elongated water submersion, without using genetic modification, so they will avoid some regulatory hurdles.  The researchers anticipate the rice will be especially impactful in India and Bangladesh, where they first tested the breeded plants.

A non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science and engineering, in concert with industry and government, to rapidly improve patient care.  CIMIT seeks solutions to unsolved clinical problems by integrating the solution-rich environment of engineering and science centers and the problem-rich environment of clinical stakeholders.

The Codman Square Health Center is a community-based, outpatient health care and multi-service center.