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Published On November 10, 2016
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Podcast: The Story Prescription
Health Story Collaborative explores the value of letting patients talk about their illnesses. Also: how terrorist attacks affect us.
Terrorist attacks are intended to spread fear, and psychologists have tried to study how these events affect mental health. Psychologist Samuel J. Sinclair talks about his Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale, a tool that may help explain why some people make drastic changes in their routines and attitudes after a terror attack.
And internist Annie Brewster joins the podcast from Health Story Collaborative. Since 2010 Brewster has recorded doctors, patients and caregivers at Massachusetts General Hospital and shared the stories they tell. Just the act of storytelling, says Brewster, gives patients an “authentic, meaningful and ultimately healing” way to process an illness. She shares powerful excerpts from those recordings on the program.
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One Thing Leads to the Next Robert Lefkowitz is best known for revealing the mechanism behind hundreds of drugs in use today. But he thinks of himself as a storyteller first and has a new book out to make his case.

Podcast: The Research Year That Was Medical research labs have faced a difficult stretch of closed buildings and competing priorities. Yet they have also produced milestone discoveries—and not only on COVID-19.

The Shape of Us Two milestone discoveries in protein modeling promise to change the fundamentals of drug discovery.

Universal Flu Vaccines Move Forward In the shadow of coronavirus vaccine development, another vaccine was making solid progress.

New Hope for Controlling HIV By studying elite controllers—people who are able to arrest the progress of HIV without medication—researchers have found a promising new path.

Progress on a Different Plague A novel use of bacteria could blunt the spread of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases.

A Better Cholera Vaccine? Puzzling through the cholera antibody response may help slow a disease that affects millions of people every year.

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