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Featured In Urology
Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Surgery
Daniel Guss, MD, MBA, discusses the unique roles minimally invasive surgery plays in the Foot and Ankle Center and how minimally invasive surgery speeds up recovery and avoids wound complications.
Featured In Urology
Multiparametric MRI/Ultrasound Fusion Biopsy Improves Prostate Cancer Detection
Active surveillance (AS) has become an accepted way to manage prostate cancer in men at lower risk. Multiparametric MRI can be used in conjunction with the standard transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy to improve detection of clinically significant cancers.
Featured In Neuroscience
Brain Infection with Herpes Virus May Accelerate Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
Laboratory studies at Mass General suggest that active herpes infections in the brain may accelerate amyloid deposition and the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
Featured In Cardiovascular
Despite Advanced Therapies, Mortality from Pulmonary Embolism Remains High
Advanced therapies for pulmonary embolism are independently associated with reduced risk of 90-day mortality, according to a review of a prospective database at Massachusetts General. However, overall mortality rates remain substantial.
Featured In Orthopaedics
Decision Aid for Trapeziometacarpal Arthritis Reduces Patient Decision Conflict
Hand surgeons at Mass General have developed a web-based decision aid that helps patients with trapeziometacarpal arthritis choose treatment with greater confidence.
The Latest Urology Advances
The Results of the First Penis Transplantation in U.S.
A man who survived penile cancer has become the first U.S. patient to undergo penis transplantation, with excellent early results.
Options for Managing Post-prostatectomy Urinary Incontinence
With more treatment options available to radical prostatectomy patients who experience post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence, patients will continue to enjoy improvements in quality of life.
Contributing Physicians
Michael L. Blute, MD
Chief, Department of Urology, Walter S. Kerr, Jr., Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Shahin Tabatabaei, MD
Director, Prostate Health Program
Advances Specialties
Cardiovascular
Weight Gain During NFL Career Linked to Post-Retirement Health Problems
Weight gain among elite football players, often a deliberate strategy to improve performance, is associated with a range of post-career chronic diseases, Massachusetts General researchers have determined.
Neuroscience
Diagnosing, Treating and Caring for Patients with Aneurysms: Q&A with James D. Rabinov, MD
James D. Rabinov, MD, a neurosurgeon at Mass General, is passionate about increasing aneurysm awareness. Dr. Rabinov recently shared his thoughts on diagnosing, treating and caring for patients with aneurysms.
Orthopaedics
New Tools Assess Risk of Motor Deficit, Short-term Mortality in Patients with Spinal Epidural Abscess
Orthopedic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed tools to help clinicians predict pretreatment motor deficit and 90-day mortality in individual patients with a spinal epidural abscess.
October 24, 2018 - June 12, 2019
Grand Rounds: Mass General Cardiology Grand Rounds
The Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center prepares future health care professionals and trains providers in innovative therapies and care. As part of these efforts, the center hosts regular Grand Rounds presentations from thought leaders and researchers on important cardiology topics. Cardiology Grand Rounds is open to all healthcare professionals.
October 13-14, 2018
CME: Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Update on Management of Pregnancy and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
This two-day course is dedicated to educating frontline caregivers with up-to-date diagnosis and management of women with cardiovascular conditions during pregnancy. A second day is dedicated to the workup and management of patients with coronary artery dissection.
Mechanism of Action Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Are you planning on receiving ECT treatments for depression? Are you interested in getting an MRI scan of your brain? If you answered yes, then you are one step closer to being involved in our research study.
SPARCS
We are recruiting people for a study of brain activity during sleep and how it affects memory and learning.
