Source:  Boston.com

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Source: Joslin Diabetes website, august 17, 2010

Luck, said Aristotle, is when an arrow hits the guy standing next to you. But when that arrow comes out of the blue and hits you—with a diagnosis of diabetes—“it can shake you to the core,” says John Zrebiec, MSW, CDE, Associate Director of Joslin’s Behavioral Health Services.

After the diagnosis of diabetes, “You name the feeling and people are going to have it,” says Zrebiec. Some people can’t sleep, burst into tears, or worry a lot. “These are all very normal responses.”   More

Source:  boston.com, August 2, 2010

By David Beard, Globe Staff

Brown University has the happiest students in the United States, MIT the most studious, and Bowdoin the best fed, according to Princeton Review Inc.

The rankings come from the Framingham company’s annual survey of 122,000 students for its book, “The Best 373 Colleges,” which comes out tomorrow.   More

Source:  The Boston Globe

Parents, it’s time to talk to your college-bound children about drinking. Again.  More

Source:  Dana Farber Website

Prototype drug blocks MCL-1 protein that helps tumors survive treatment

Loren Walensky, MD, PhD

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer.

The researchers discovered, surprisingly, that they could exploit a small portion of this anti-death protein, called MCL-1, to make a molecular tool that specifically blocked MCL-1′s “pro-survival” action, allowing standard cancer drugs to kill the tumor cells by apoptosis, or programmed cell death.  More

Source: The Boston Globe:  It is a rite of passage for many rising high school seniors: the college campus tour. Each summer, thousands of prospective students and their families make the trek to New England campuses. StudentAdvisor.com, an online college-research guide, offers five things to look for during the visits.  More…

Source:  Jay Matthews, The Washington Post.  

I have three children. All went to college.

I accompanied them on 23 campus visits. I read all the college search guides. I became increasingly upset at what the books were suggesting parents or their children do when they arrived at a college on their list. More

Source:  Dana Farber Cancer Institute Website:   Dana-Farber physician-scientist William G. Kaelin, MD, is one of five recipients of a 2010 Canada Gairdner Award, among the world’s most prestigious medical research honors.  Read more…

Source: The Washington Post, Sunday, May 23, 2010     This spring, more than 3 million students will graduate from America’s high schools, and more than 2 million of them will head off to college in the fall. At the top colleges, competition has been increasingly fierce, leaving many high school seniors licking their wounds and wondering what they did “wrong.” But do selective colleges and universities do a good job of identifying the best and brightest? And is the concern about who gets into the best colleges justified?  Read more…

Source: The Quad, boston.com, May 3, 2010 It’s spring, so that means there’s plenty of pomp and circumstance in the air. Here is an updated list of the commencement plans of private colleges around the state. Also see details from the state’s public colleges as well as photo gallery of some notable speakers.