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Boston Children’s pauses planned move into Fenway lab building
Boston Children’s Hospital is pausing its plans to move into the five floors of a Fenway lab building that it purchased two ...
Trump’s $2.2B funding freeze for Harvard would hit cancer research, battlefield medicine and more
Breakthrough therapies to prevent and target a range of cancers. A new class of anesthetics for servicemembers wounded on the ...
Boston working group recommends health care reuse of Dorchester’s shuttered Carney Hospital site
A Dorchester working group issued a report recommending that the city reuse the shuttered Carney Hospital site for ...
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Philadelphia physician aims to build a more accessible health-care system
Ibrahim was born in a Somali town near the Ethiopian border, where his family of 10 children subsisted on his father’s $100 ...
Looking to serve again: Former Newton chief opens up on heart health, aftermath of lawsuit
After walking away from his decades-long policing career to focus on his heart health last fall, former Newton Police Chief ...
Harvard is a lot more than its university campus. What else could funding cuts affect?
The approximately $2.2 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University announced this week could reach much farther ...
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Trump admin says fight against Harvard doesn't extend to hospital affiliates
While the high-profile standoff between the Trump administration and Harvard University is certain to upend healthcare ...
Another Newton-Wellesley Hospital staffer reports brain tumor
Six staff members have now reported developing brain tumors after working on the fifth floor for “varying durations.” ...
Preventable pregnancy deaths: 2,679 lives lost in US from 2018–2022, researchers estimate
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Technical University of ...
Physician's Weekly13d
In-hospital Mortality is Lower in Brain-Injured Patients After Admission to a Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit: A Multi-Center Cohort Study.
ObjectiveTo study the impact of dedicated Neuroscience Intensive Care Units (NSU) on clinical outcomes in patients with acute brain injury.DesignRetrospective, multicenter cohort study.Setting172 ...
The Harvard Crimson13d
New Cancer Hospital for Dana Farber Leaves Healthcare Experts Skeptical
When the Dana Farber Cancer Institute announced that it was opening a new, $1.7 billion, 300-bed inpatient cancer hospital in ...
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Israel intensifies strikes across Gaza on Palm Sunday and hits a hospital in the north
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A wave of Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday hit a hospital and other sites, killing at least 21 people, including children, as Israel vowed to expand its ...