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Two Months After Bombings, PTSD Is A Concern

In many ways, it’s hard to believe that the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line was two months ago. Sometimes it feels like they […]

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Ask the Expert: Is Endurance Exercise Actually Bad For You?

Anyone who’s ever watched a marathon can agree on one thing: Distance runners are in really, really good shape. So when we saw research asserting […]

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Brigham and Women’s Planning New LEED-Certified Building

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) will break ground on a new medical research and clinical facility this week. They are calling the building the “Brigham Building for […]

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Genetic Mutation May Cause Early Onset Puberty

Most of us experienced the onset of that wonderful thing called puberty—cue the voice cracks, excessive sweating, and acne—sometime between the ages of 8 and […]

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Parasitic Worms Inspire New Skin Graft Technology

If you’re not a huge fan of parasitic worms, you’re like approximately everybody else on the planet. Everybody, that is, except researchers at Brigham and […]

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Researchers Working on a Urine Test for Breast Cancer

A mammogram is an x-ray picture of the breast. But that much you know already. If you’ve never had a mammogram, what you may not know is that […]

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Brigham and Women’s Screening Patients for Leg Transplants

Brigham and Women’s Hospital performed a full facial transplant surgery in February, a procedure that has been done only five times in the hospital’s history. […]

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New Sperm Sorting Research Could Improve Infertility Treatment

With nearly 70 million couples worldwide experiencing infertility, in vitro fertilization is rapidly becoming a relied upon resource for those looking to start a family. […]

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Partners Healthcare Offers Subsidy to Employees in Same-Sex Couples

Because Massachusetts is one of the pioneer states to legalize gay marriage, you’d think that life for same-sex couples is relatively obstacle-free here in the […]

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Sugary Drinks Linked to Kidney Stones

We’ve reported quite a bit on recent efforts to curb the consumption and sales of sugary drinks. Those initiatives often fall back on the argument […]

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Can Hormones Cause Anorexia?

Eating disorders are one of the highest profile psychiatric diseases—the Internet is constantly abuzz with speculation about which celebrity has one this week—but also one […]

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Facial Transplant Patient Fights to Keep Her New Face

When we reported on Carmen Blandin Tarleton‘s amazing facial transplant surgery in February, the mood was celebratory. Tarleton, who underwent the surgery at Brigham and […]

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Stretching 101

Stretching seems like a pretty straight-forward issue: Just do it before a workout and you’re good to go, right? Wrong, says Reg Wilcox, a physical […]

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Diet and Surgery Recovery Time Linked

It’s been drilled into our heads that a low-fat diet is the way to go. And new research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that […]

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Physical Therapy As Effective as Surgery for Torn Meniscus

No one wants to have surgery. It’s a long, costly process that’s—as if you could forget—painful. But many people view surgery as their only option […]