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Mass General Is Giving Kids a ‘Prescription’ To Go Outside
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children is teaming up with Boston-based conservation and recreation program the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) to launch Outdoors Rx, a program […]
Bacon Linked to Low Sperm Count
If you’re a woman who is looking to have a child sometime in the near future, you may want to choose a mate that’s a […]
Link Discovered Between Alzheimer’s and Down Syndrome
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have discovered a link between Alzheimer’s disease and Down Syndrome which could potentially lead to better treatments for both. For […]
Researchers Discover A New Cause For Alzheimer’s
Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurogenerative Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that they have discovered and validated a new genetic cause for the most common […]
Male Menopause Has Roots in Estrogen
In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that symptoms in middle aged men often attributed to […]
MIT Researcher’s Invention Could Save 1.8 Million Newborn Lives
About 1.8 million newborn babies die the day they are born each year because they have trouble breathing, mostly in low and middle-income countries, according […]
Home Base Program Helping Veterans
The Home Base Program was created in 2009 through a partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital to help Iraq and Afghanistan […]
Boston University Professor Developed a Bionic Pancreas
Ed Damiano, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University (BU), has four years to complete and submit his design to the FDA to […]
MGH Researchers Grew An Artificial Human Ear from Animal Tissue
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers just grew an artificial human ear from animal tissue and cells. In a study released last week in the Journal of the […]
College Football Players at Risk for High Blood Pressure
College football players may be at risk for high blood pressure just like the pros, according to a new study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital […]
Coming Soon: A Blood Test for Autism
Because of a $15.4 million grant from Google Ventures, Boston-area researchers are testing whether a blood test could lead to earlier diagnoses of autism in […]
Massachusetts General Hospital Ranked No. 2 in Nation
For the second year in a row, Boston has two hospitals ranked in the top 10 on U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the best hospitals. […]
Boston Researcher Hopes to Develop Long Term Vaccine for Cholera
Meagan Bufano, 36, wasn’t born in Boston. But like many of us, she feels like she’s found her home in this city. After spending three […]
Dana-Farber and MGH Named Best Cancer Hospitals
Men’s Health magazine named the “Best Cancer Hospitals in the U.S.” and no surprise here, two of Boston’s hospitals were named top in the region. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and […]
Neurologist By Day, Rock Star By Night
It’s not everyday that a neurologist becomes a celebrity, but for Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and Mass. General Hospital (MGH) and […]