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What’s True, What’s Not? Mass General Brigham Researchers Answer Common Heart Health Questions 

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | July 15, 2026

Recent studies from investigators at the Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute shed light on facts and myths about heart disease.

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How Polygenic Risk Scores Could Improve Early Detection of Heart Disease: A Q&A with Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSC

By Edita Music | February 26, 2026

Researchers are using polygenic risk scores to get a better handle on what patients are at greatest risk of heart disease.

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How AI-Powered Digital Twins Could Transform Care for Heart Failure Patients

By Brian Burns | February 3, 2026
An illustrated concept of a digitally generated heart.

Digital twins can help doctors spot small changes early and predict when trouble is coming, transforming care from reactive to proactive.

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Superficial Vein Thrombosis, a Common—Yet Surprisingly Understudied—Vein Clotting Condition

By Brian Burns | September 23, 2025

Superficial vein thrombosis (SuVT) is a condition involving blood clots in veins close to the surface of the skin.

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Brigham Researchers Advance to Next Phase of International XPRIZE Healthspan Competition

By Brian Burns | May 12, 2025

The XPRIZE award includes $250,000 to fund preliminary studies and a chance to compete for the $101 million grand prize.

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Extending the Reach of Innovation to Empower Patients After Hypertensive Pregnancy

By Haley Bridger | May 6, 2025

A Brigham program that assists high-risk postpartum patients to transition from obstetric to primary care is being adapted by other health systems.

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Pressure Check: Testing A Unique Community-Based Approach to Managing High Blood Pressure

By Brian Burns | January 21, 2025

It’s a sunny afternoon at the In the Cut barbershop on Tremont Street just outside the Roxbury Crossing T Stop. The customers inside are a mix of locals and college students coming in to get haircuts, shaves and beard trims and to swap stories with the barbershop staff. There’s also something you don’t typically see…

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Through the Magnifying Glass: The Perfusion Lab

By Nicoletta Valenzano, MPH | October 2, 2024

How Shannon Tessier, PhD, and the team at the Perfusion Lab are studying heart reanimation, to increase potential donor hearts available.

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Mass General Researchers Share Science-Backed Ways to Improve Your Heart Health

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | February 8, 2024

Researchers and clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital share actionable steps you can take to have a healthy heart!

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Through the Magnifying Glass: The Myhre Syndrome Clinic and Lindsay Lab

By Kyle Banker | June 26, 2023

A close-up look at the Myhre Clinic and their research lab, the Lindsay Lab, which is working to understand more about the disease.

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