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FILTER RESULTS ►Survey points out deficiencies in addictions training for medical residents
A 2012 survey of internal medicine residents at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – one of the nation's leading teaching hospitals – found that more than half rated the training they had received in addiction and other substance use disorders as fair or poor. Show More Summary
MATH and Tumors
Well, not really math, but MATH, for mutant-allele tumor heterogeneity. So not math per se, but a measurement. Allow me to explain. The measurement known as MATH was created by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital as a way to quantify …
Combining Bone-Building Drugs Key to Making Bones Stronger
Two drugs used to treat osteoporosis may be better than either alone in maintaining bone density. Dr. Benjamin Leder and his colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital found that combining teriparatide (Forteo) and denosumab (Prolia)...Show More Summary
Mutations In Genes That Regulate Cellular Metabolism Found In Families With Ataxia, Dementia And Reproductive Failure
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Duke University have identified genetic mutations that appear to underlie a rare but devastating syndrome combining reproductive failure with cerebellar ataxia - a lack of muscle coordination - and dementia. Show More Summary
MGH's Sally Millar Receives AACN Award for Distinguished Career in Critical Care and Informatics Nursing
AACN honors Sally Millar -- director, Patient Care Services Informatics, Massachusetts General Hospital -- for extraordinary contributions to critical care and AACN mission, vision. She will receive the award during the 2013 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Boston, May 18-23.
Cerebellar ataxia: 2 genes combine to cause rare syndrome
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Duke University have identified genetic mutations that appear to underlie a rare but devastating syndrome combining reproductive failure with cerebellar ataxia – a lack of muscle coordination – and dementia. Show More Summary
Portable device provides rapid, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, other bacterial infections
A handheld diagnostic device that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators first developed to diagnose cancer has been adapted to rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and other important infectious bacteria. Two papers appearing...Show More Summary
Single Session Of Relaxation Response Practice Alters Gene Expression Involved In Inflammation, Energy Metabolism, Insulin Secretion
A new study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) finds that elicitation of the relaxation response - a physiologic...Show More Summary
Gene variant appears to predict weight loss after gastric bypass
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have identified a gene variant that helps predict how much weight an individual will lose after gastric bypass surgery, a finding with the potential both to guide treatment planning and to facilitate the development of new therapeutic approaches to treating obesity and related conditions like diabetes. Show More Summary
Being a doctor in a time of crisis
I was sitting in the resident workroom at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) when my co-resident showed me the text from her sister: two explosions had shaken the finish line of the Boston marathon. Though news sites had not yet published the headline, it was immediately corroborated by the cacophonic wails of ambulances heading towards us [...]
ALS trial shows novel therapy is safe
An investigational treatment for an inherited form of Lou Gehrig's disease has passed an early phase clinical trial for safety, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Massachusetts General Hospital report. The...Show More Summary
From the ER in Boston
From the Wall Street Journal this morning, Emily Loving Aaronson, MD, an Emergency-medicine resident at Harvard who is on staff at the Brigham and Womens and Massachusetts General Hospitals, reflects on the scene in the Emergency Room on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing attack: "... Show More Summary
'Happy to be alive': Blast amputees confront uncertain road ahead
The most severely injured patients from Monday’s bomb blasts in Boston showed up at Massachusetts General Hospital with their lower legs “completely mangled” -- torn limbs hanging by skin and tissue, said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma.
Faced with massive …
Lab Grown Kidney Successfully Transplanted Into Mice
Scientists
ook one step closer toward the holy grail of organ transplant, growing
a functioning organ in vitro and transplanting them: In the latest work, Harald Ott of Massachusetts General hospital led
a team of scientists who grew a kidney by using an experimental technique
hat has previously been used to create working hearts, lungs and livers. Show More Summary
Boston Marathon Explosions Leave Hospitals Scrambling To Care For Wounded
Boston, MA — The Boston Marathon explosions have left area hospitals scrambling to care for the wounded. With the death toll at three and the wounded at 144 or more, hospitals like Boston Children’s and Massachusetts General are struggling in more ways than one. The trouble began when two bombs ripped through the crowd on [...]Show More Summary
Boston Hospital Confirms Doctors Are Treating Shrapnel Injuries, 'Several Amputations' From Marathon Blast
Peter Fagenholz, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, provided an update Monday night on the two fatal explosions at the Boston Marathon. The Boston Police Department confirmed Monday that the incident had injured at least 130 people, and killed at least three. Show More Summary
Treating the Marathon Casualties: Inside One Boston Emergency Room
Eric Feins, a 32-year-old surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, had been excited to spend his day off taking in the Boston Marathon from a roof party along the route where he had gathered with four fellow residents. But...Show More Summary
Deadly Boston blasts inspire reports of heroism
Following the deadly blasts at the Boston Marathon, acts of heroism were shared on Twitter and the Web. Some runners who crossed the finish line continued running to Massachusetts General Hospital to donate blood. The fact that so many runners in the Boston marathon kept running after the marathon to the hospital to donate blood, [...]
LIVE UPDATES: Boston Marathon Explosion
3:29 pm ET: Massachusetts General Hospital confirms at least 4 injured taken there. 3:25 pm ET: Police warning people in area to avoid trash cans. 3:15 pm ET: Boston Police Department says two explosions on Boyleston street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. ...
Tissue Engineers Make Working Kidneys in the Lab - For Rats
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston have engineered working kidneys for rats with the goal of
eventually creating made-to-order human kidneys for transplant.
From the abstract
in Nature Medicine:
Approximately 100,000...Show More Summary
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