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News & Events
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Surgeon Tests New Skin Cancer Imaging Device
A Mass General dermatologist is testing an imaging device that will provide surgeons with a more accurate look at a tumor prior to surgery to remove skin cancers on the face.
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Researcher Explores the Sleep-Anxiety Connection
A Massachusetts General Hospital researcher says that sometimes sleep problems begin before a person develops severe anxiety symptoms.
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Global Health: Pediatrician Passionate about Teaching
A globe-trotting pediatrician teaches others to use proven but inexpensive methods to save children’s lives in distressed areas of the world.
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How to Stop Dieting
A Mass General dietitian says that, instead of following diets that concentrate on what not to eat, we might be be better off focusing on foods we should be eating more of.
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Hand Surgeon Takes Expertise to China and India
The efforts of Chaitanya Mudgal, MD, to care for patients and better the field of hand surgery extend 12,000 miles across the world to Guangxi Province in China and the city of Hubballi in India.
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Study Helps Improve Neonatal Feeding Strategies
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children has adopted a new process for transitioning premature infants to oral feeding.
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Pulmonary Embolism: For Some Clots, It Takes a Village
Treatment of pulmonary embolisms may benefit from a team approach. But that model faces obstacles inside and outside the hospital.
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Strength Training Helpful for Older Adults
A fitness expert says strength training builds and maintains bones and muscles and helps manage symptoms of diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and low back pain.
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Doctor Advocates for Patients with Down Syndrome
Determined to ensure lifelong care for his patients, the director of Mass General’s Down Syndrome Program is on a mission to build philanthropic support and inspire more caregivers to enter the field.
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Susan Miller Briggs, MD, MPH, FACS Honored with Endowed Chair
The Carmella R. and Steven C. Kletjian Endowed Chair in Global Surgery will further ensure that patients everywhere have access to safe, sustainable and high-quality surgical care.
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New Clinic Offers Hope for Moms in Recovery
Mass General’s new HOPE Clinic integrates care to help mothers recovering from substance use disorder stay healthy and care for their infants through the second year of life.
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Students Celebrate Summer Jobs Experience
The 2018 Summer Jobs Program recognition event honored 255 high school and college students who committed 40,000 hours to Mass General and its community health centers.
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J. Stuart Ablon, PhD, Honored with Endowed Chair
J. Stuart Ablon, PhD, was named the inaugural incumbent of the Thomas G. Stemberg Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Osteoarthritis Doesn’t Have to Keep You Out of Sports
By managing pain and symptoms, many people with osteoarthritis can continue to exercise and enjoy sports. Seeking treatment early can help.
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Global Health Chief Puts Community Priorities First
Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, DTM&H, executive director of Mass General Global Health, says experience has taught her that effective global health partnerships involve listening to communities in need and trying to serve their priorities first. [...]
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MGH Fund: Grassroots Strategy Wins Competition
An intrepid team of Mass General employees won the annual My Giving Helps employee picnic fundraising competition with their creative use of old-fashioned fundraising techniques to support the MGH Fund.
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Researcher Finds Early Palliative Care Beneficial
MGH Research Scholar Jennifer Temel, MD, says early palliative care can provide seriously ill patients with a better quality of life and help them live longer.
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Team Marks Milestone in Mitral Valve Replacement
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians recently became the first in New England to perform mitral valve replacement with a new, minimally-invasive method that doesn't require patients to undergo a full open-heart procedure.
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MGH Research Scholar Pursues Shigella Advance
A research team led by Cammie Lesser, MD, PhD, a d’Arbeloff MGH Research Scholar, recently published findings that could lead to new strategies for treating shigella and other infectious diseases.
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Awards Provide Crucial Support to Female Investigators
To help address gender disparities in science and medicine, Mass General’s Claflin Distinguished Scholars Awards provide financial support to help women scientists maintain research productivity during child-rearing years.
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Advisory Councils Help Shape and Improve Care
At Mass General, patient and family advisory councils play an important role in working with clinicians and administrators to shape and improve hospital services, programs and initiatives.
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Surgeon Develops Foam to Stop Traumatic Bleeding
Working with an engineering team, a trauma and acute care surgeon at Mass General has created a self-expanding trauma foam designed to stop badly injured people from bleeding out before they reach an operating room.
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MGH Research Scholar Explores Sleep-Disease Links
Richa Saxena, PhD, and her team are making connections between sleep genes and illnesses like cardiovascular disease.
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Event Highlights Progress on Brain Disease Research
Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND) detailed some of the latest advances in brain disease research at MIND's 2018 Visiting Day.