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Featured In Research and Innovation
Early Immune Responses Predict Outcome of Severe COVID-19
Five early immune response markers, considered together, correctly classified plasma samples as belonging to survivors or non-survivors of severe COVID-19.
Featured In Cardiovascular
DCD Donor Hearts Safely Expand Donor Organ Pool
Massachusetts General Hospital is one of five donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant centers in the U.S., investigating DCD donor hearts for transplantation.
Featured In Pulmonary and Critical Care
The CORE Clinic and Post-ICU Care: Q&A with Leo Ginns, MD, and George Alba, MD
In this Q&A, Leo C. Ginns, MD, and George A. Alba, MD, physicians in the Division of Pulmonary Care and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, describe the development and purpose of the Coronavirus Recovery (CORE) Clinic, of which they are director and associate director (respectively).
Featured In OB/GYN
Case Series: Inhaled Nitric Oxide for Pregnant Patients with Severe or Critical COVID-19
High-dose nitric oxide gas rapidly improved shortness of breath in six pregnant patients who had severe or critical COVID-19, and in five cases viral infection resolved within 28 days.
Featured In Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Commentary: The Safety Net Needs to Be "Geriatricized"
Christine Seel Ritchie, MD, MSPH, of the Mongan Institute and Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues have four pointers for clinicians in safety net settings who want to optimize care of adults with geriatric conditions.
The Latest Neuroscience Advances
Teaching Resiliency to Help Health Care Professionals Cope: Q&A with Daphne J. Holt, MD, PhD
In this Q&A, Daphne J. Holt, MD, PhD, teaches skills for dealing with the overwhelming stress on health care workers during the pandemic and discusses how learning resiliency through online training can help them manage their mental health during this stressful time.
Functional MRI Marker Can Diagnose Migraine Without Aura
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have identified and validated a distinctive pattern of abnormal brain connections on functional MRI that discriminates between patients with and without migraine.
Contributing Physicians
Maurizio Fava, MD
Psychiatrist-In-Chief; Director, Division of Clinical Research of the MGH Research Institute, Executive Director, Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI), Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research, Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Chief of Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, OCD and Related Disorders Program, MGH, Professor, Harvard Medical School
Advances Specialties
Cardiovascular
Better Guidelines Needed to Distinguish Individuals at Elevated Polygenic Risk of CAD
Current guideline-based strategies for estimating a patient's risk of coronary artery disease do not account fully for inherited susceptibility.
Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Prescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications to Older Adults Is Common, Costly
Between 2014 and 2018, 43 billion doses of potentially inappropriate medications were dispensed to adults over 65, with spending of $25.2 billion.
Radiology
Functional MRI Marker Can Diagnose Migraine Without Aura
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have identified and validated a distinctive pattern of abnormal brain connections on functional MRI that discriminates between patients with and without migraine.
October 14-16, 2020
CME: The Comprehensive 2020 Update for Clinical Cardiology
This live-streamed program provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art practices to diagnose and treat patients with cardiovascular conditions. Led by the leading clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Update for Clinical Cardiology ensures attendees are informed about recent advances in clinical cardiology and the best ways to incorporate them into daily practice to optimize patient outcomes.
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.
