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How A Small Fish Could Lead to Better Strategies to Repair Tendon Tears

By Brian Burns | MGH Research Scholars, Surgery | 0 comment | 24 October, 2023 | 0

Mass General researcher Jenna Galloway, PhD, is using zebrafish models to find new treatment strategies for tendon injuries.

Mass General for Children Research Team is Working to Avoid the Need for Surgery in Patients with Hirschsprung Disease

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | Pediatrics, Surgery | 0 comment | 2 August, 2023 | 0

Allan Goldstein, MD, and team are developing new treatment strategies for Hirschprung disease that can reduce the need for invasive surgery.

Neurosurgery Researcher Working to Identify New Treatments for Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Kyle Banker | Neurology, Surgery | 0 comment | 15 June, 2023 | 0

There are currently no therapeutics to treat children with traumatic brain injuries. How one Mass General researcher is working to change that.

Heart Health Month: Learn about the Life of a Cardiac Surgeon

By Kyle Banker | Cardiology, Heart Health Month 2023, Medicine, Surgery | 0 comment | 15 February, 2023 | 0

For our second heart health month blog, Asishana Osho, MD, MPH, from the Mass General Heart Center answers questions about his passion and work as a cardiac surgeon.

Biopreservation Could Revolutionize the Future of Medicine—How Mass General Researchers are Helping Us Get There

By Brian Burns | Medicine, Surgery | 0 comment | 22 October, 2020 | 0

Mass General is part of a multicenter research effort to overcome key challenges in the long term preservation and reuse of organs, cells, tissues and more.

Could Smartphones Give Surgeons A Better Sense of What Postoperative Recovery Looks Like?

By Brian Burns | Surgery | 0 comment | 7 January, 2020 | 0

Researchers are hoping that data on patient activity levels post-surgery that is collected via smartphones will help them better understand what the recovery process looks like.

Researchers Develop “Supercool” Organ Preservation Technique to Give Clinicians and Recipients More Time for Transplants

By Gloria Rosado | Surgery | 0 comment | 26 September, 2019 | 0

For the first time, researchers successfully “supercooled” a human liver and returned it back to normal body temperatures without any ice injury. Using this supercooling preservation method, the research team, led by Reinier de Vries, MD, were able to triple the shelf-life of human livers from about nine hours to 27 hours.

SurgiBox: Mass General Trauma Surgeon Helps Bring Safer Surgery to the Field

By Gloria Rosado | Global Health, Surgery | 0 comment | 13 December, 2018 | 0

SurgiBox is an inflatable, sterile surgical environment that fits in a backpack and allows for safe surgery anywhere.

Mass General Researchers Detail How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Surgery Safer

By Brian Burns | Surgery, Technology | 0 comment | 6 December, 2018 | 0

In a recent article in Annals of Surgery, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT details the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the practice and teaching of surgery—and how patients will benefit with safer surgeries and better outcomes.

ResQFoam Study Seeks Feedback on Clinical Trial for Trauma Patients

By Brian Burns | Surgery | 0 comment | 5 October, 2018 | 0

The REVIVE clinical trial team is seeking feedback from the public on their study testing the use of RESQFOAM in severely injured trauma patients.

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