Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital, (Mass General) was established in 1811 in Boson, Massachusetts. Mass Geneeral is the teaching hospital for Harvard. MGH is part of the large medical science research and patient care complex that is consistently rated in the top 10 of teaching hospitals in the USA. MGH is noted for its work in endocrinology, cancer, digestive disorders, neurosurgery, and recently made signiificant break through in organ transplant rejection research.
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55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114
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"Massachusetts General Hospital" in the news:
Physicians develop potentially safer general anesthetic
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians has developed a new general anesthetic that may be safer for critically ill patients. In the August issue of Anesthesiology, they describe preclinical studies of the ...
Sexual problems rarely addressed by internists caring for cancer survivors
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Few internists who care for cancer survivors address issues of sexual dysfunction with their patients, according to a study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In their article appearing in a November ...
HIV patients at greater risk for bone fractures
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 28, 2008 |
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HIV-infected patients have a higher prevalence of fractures than non HIV-infected patients, across both genders and critical fracture sites according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of ...
Common ECG finding may indicate serious cardiac problems
Jun 23, 2009 |
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A common electrocardiogram (ECG) finding that has largely been considered insignificant may actually signal an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (a chronic heart rhythm disturbance), the future need for a permanent pacemaker ...
Model tissue system reveals cellular communication via amino acids
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) has found the first evidence of cell-to-cell communication by amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, rather ...
Is Your Cognitive And Physical Functioning Ok? A New Instrument To Check It
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A group of Italian and American investigators has published a new instrument for assessing cognitive and physical functioning (the Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire, CPFQ), in ...
Insufficient levels of vitamin D puts elderly at increased risk of dying from heart disease
Sep 21, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows vitamin D plays a vital role in reducing the risk of death associated with older age. The research, just published ...
3 Questions: AIDS researchers on new vaccine results
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Thursday, an international research team reported that a new AIDS vaccine tested in more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand protected a small but significant minority against infection. The ...
Mummy's tooth yields DNA
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists.
Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians
May 14, 2009 |
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Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. ...
Clots traveling from lower veins may not be the cause of pulmonary embolism in trauma patients
Oct 19, 2009 |
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A report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians calls into question the longstanding belief that pulmonary embolism (PE) - the life-threatening blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs - is caused ...
Study identifies first molecular steps to childhood leukemia
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research team has identified how a chromosomal abnormality known to be associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) - the most common cancer in children - initiates the disease ...
Genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer risk may be greatly underutilized
May 21, 2009 |
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Although a test for gene mutations known to significantly increase the risk of hereditary breast or ovarian cancer has been available for more than a decade, a new study finds that few women with family histories of these ...
Denosumab increases bone density, cuts fracture risk in prostate cancer survivors
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Twice-yearly treatment with denosumab, a new targeted therapy to stop bone loss, increased bone density and prevented spinal fractures in men receiving androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. The report from an ...
Study identifies human genes required for hepatitis C viral replication
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new way to block reproduction of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) - targeting not the virus itself but the human genes the virus exploits in ...
