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Featured In Research and Innovation
Is There a Connection Between Blood Type and COVID-19? Q&A with Rebecca Karp Leaf, MD, and Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
In this Q&A, Rebecca Karp Leaf, MD, and Hanny Al-Samkari, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, give us a rundown of what is known to date about the correlation between blood type and COVID-19 transmission/severity, findings from their study and why this connection may or may not exist.
Featured In Radiology
Adapting Radiology Operations to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a significant change to its usual practice, the Mass General Department of Radiology has implemented work-from-home policies, enabling remote coverage through various technological solutions.
Featured In Digestive Health
Bowel Necrosis in a Patient with COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons have described a critically ill patient with COVID-19 who developed catastrophic bowel necrosis despite widely patent mesenteric vessels.
Featured In Pulmonary and Critical Care
Treating Lung Metastases with Image-Guided Ablation
Image-guided ablation represents an alternative approach for patients who cannot undergo surgery or radiation due to the extent of metastatic disease or comorbidities including limited respiratory function, advanced age or prior radiation therapy.
Featured In Orthopaedics
Vitamin E Protects Bone Allografts Undergoing Radiation Sterilization
Vitamin E, a biocompatible free radical scavenger, is an effective and feasible radioprotectant when bone allografts are sterilized with ionizing radiation.
The Latest Neuroscience Advances
Neuropsychiatry: Advancing Individual and Global Impacts
Massachusetts General Hospital's neuropsychiatry services include clinical programs for complex patients, such as those with early onset dementia, as well as global psychiatry.
Tumor Suppressor Gene PBRM1 Frequently Inactivated in Papillary Meningioma
The discovery of a frequent PBRM1 mutation in papillary meningioma suggests a potential new approach to developing therapies for this malignant, aggressive tumor.
Contributing Physicians
Merit Ester Cudkowicz, MD, MSc
Chief, Neurology Service, Director of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Mass General, Director of Neurological Clinical Research Institute and the Jilieane Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Yakeel T. Quiroz-Gaviria, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program-MAPP
Advances Specialties
Cardiovascular
Using the Framingham Heart Study to Understand Heart Failure
In this video, Matthew Nayor, MD, cardiologist in the Heart Failure and Transplantation Program in the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, discusses his research on identifying and predicting heart failure using data from the Framingham Heart Study to understand protein measurements in blood.
Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Effects of Electronic Monitoring of Cancer Symptoms Differ Based on Patient Age
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center researchers find that electronic systems for monitoring cancer symptoms may need to be tailored to patients' age-specific care needs.
Radiology
Editorial: Radiologists Have Opportunities to Improve Patient Engagement in Mammographic Screening
Radiologists should emphasize areas of broad consensus about the benefits of screening mammography when speaking with patients, referring providers and administrators.
May 29, 2020
CME: Cardiovascular Care for Women
This one-day course is dedicated to educating front line caregivers with up-to-date diagnosis and management of women with cardiovascular conditions including during pregnancy, women with coronary artery dissection, microvascular disease and myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA). In addition, guidance and strategies on the development of women heart centers and cardio-obstetric programs will be provided.
July 21, 2020 - August 12, 2020
Conference: Turning Points: From Healthy Cells and Systems to Neurological Disease States
The symposia, organized by the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, will cover a broad range of studies at the molecular, cellular, circuit/systems and behavioral levels, with the hope of uniting expertise under the general neuroscience umbrella.
MGH Postpartum Psychosis Project (MGHP3)
If you are a mother who has experienced an episode of postpartum psychosis within the past ten years, you could help us to better understand this serious disorder.
A study to understand the influence of common variation at SLC16A11 and other genes on the physiological response to a mixed meal tolerance test (SIGMA2 MGH)
As part of the study, participants will be asked to eat up to 2 meals and take a commonly used medication that also influences metabolism.
