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‘The hospital never supported the midwives’: As more birth centers open, their viability hinges on nearby hospitals

02.12.2022

BEVERLY, Mass. — It was fitting, one activist said, that the sky was storming on the night before the North Shore Birth Center closed, as patients, midwives, and community members …

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Health

‘People count on it’: In Boston, a mobile clinic meets health needs in the neighborhood

22.08.2022

BOSTON — By 9 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, the bright blue, colorfully branded van was already parked on a street in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. And while …

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In the Lab

Lattes and gummies: Food science inspires a new approach to treating gut and liver injury

29.06.2022

Inspired by how coffee shops foam milk, as well as gummy candy and sizzling Pop Rocks, researchers have designed three gas-trapping materials to deliver a low dose of carbon monoxide …

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Health Tech

He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech

26.04.2022

Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner for a super-competitive dermatology residency: He had a double degree from Harvard University, experience as …

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Coronavirus / Health

Sex of the fetus influences the mother’s response to Covid-19 infection, new research shows

20.10.2021

In April 2020, as SARS-CoV-2 was first beginning to spread through New England, researchers at two hospitals in Boston — Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s — began attending deliveries …

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Health / Health Tech

A new surgical robot is smaller, nimbler, and cheaper, its maker claims. But will it be better for patients?

01.10.2021

The surgical robot market, long dominated by one company, has a new entrant hoping to disrupt the industry with a more immersive, 3D experience for surgeons — even as the …

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Health / Health Tech

‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

14.09.2021

“Can you give me a thumbs up?” the surgeon asks Jerry Majetich, an Iraq War veteran, during a checkup this spring at a Boston hospital. “Can you make me a …

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Biotech

Biogen admits Aduhelm launch ‘slower than we anticipated’

09.09.2021

Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos admitted Thursday that the launch of Aduhelm, the company’s intensely scrutinized treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, has been “slower than we anticipated,” which he blamed in part …

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Pharma

‘Remember her as the badass she was’: ALS patient who died should force Biogen, others to anticipate expanded access issues

19.08.2021

It’s been two weeks since Lisa Stockman Mauriello passed away and a lingering question, in my mind, is whether she died in vain. I’d like to think not. During her …

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