NOvembER 2019
HOME Trial Team wins 2019 Birnbaum Award
Interdisciplinary group shows that home-based HPV tests can boost cervical cancer screening for women at high risk.
Mailing home HPV tests may provide alternative to Pap screening
Dr. Diana Buist and team reflect on HOME trial showing 50 percent screening boost in underscreened women.
What drives Karen Wernli to study breast cancer?
Dr. Karen Wernli reflects on her involvement in breast cancer research, centered on patients and access.
FDA to expand drug-safety monitoring system
New funding will establish an innovation center, to be led by Harvard Pilgrim in partnership with KPWHRI and others.
Stopping violence: What can health care do right now?
Dr. David Grossman, with Dr. Bechara Choucair, has ideas for reducing harm to patients and the workforce.
Katie Coleman appointed MacColl Center director
A primary care improvement expert, she has worked closely with community health centers and national networks.
Fellows launch 6 
projects to reduce medical overuse
A new program is looking to foster efforts to reduce unnecessary care for vulnerable patients.
NIH funds study to identify high-risk suicide patients
KPWHRI will work with Weill Cornell Medicine to test a novel algorithm to assess risk of self-harm.
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