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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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One Scientist’s Unexpected Journey From Puerto Rico to Massachusetts General Hospital

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | October 9, 2024

How a self-described nerdy kid from Puerto Rico followed his science dreams to the Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard and MIT.

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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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Fact or Fiction? Massachusetts General Researchers Set the Record Straight on Common Food & Nutrition Misconceptions

By Nicoletta Valenzano, MPH | August 6, 2024

Researchers debunk widespread misconceptions about nutrition and provide science-backed insights based on their research.

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How Climate Change is Helping the Spread of Infectious Diseases

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | June 20, 2024
Image of a mosquito biting a human

Doctors from Mass General and colleagues highlight the increased risk of infectious diseases stemming from climate change.

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Mass General Researchers Share the Science of Sleep Health

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | March 12, 2024

Mass General researchers and clinicians share science-backed findings about the importance of sleep health.

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Why Are More Young Adults Getting Colorectal Cancer? New Grant Will Support the Quest to Find Out

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | March 6, 2024

Cancer Grand Challenges: Record £100m awarded to five teams taking on cancer’s toughest challenges, including Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, from Massachusetts General Hospital.

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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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National Mentoring Month 2024

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | January 30, 2024

In celebration of National Mentoring Month, we asked research mentees about how their Mass General mentors have shaped their careers.

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Regular Exercise Could Be the Key to Reducing Risk of Alcoholic Liver Disease

By Brian Burns | January 18, 2024

Alcohol use and alcoholic liver disease is on the rise globally, and researchers at Mass General are looking for new ways to help.

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