Surgery
How One Mass General Brigham Surgeon Is Making Training Safer During Pregnancy
Erica Rangel is an advocate for female surgeons working to balance the dual demands of career and family.
Read MoreFrom Blueprint to Beating: How 3D Bioprinting Is Advancing Heart Research at Mass General Brigham
What if doctors could one day print living tissue the way we print documents—on demand, precisely shaped and tailored to each patient?
Read MoreResearchers Unplugged: Meet the Mass General Brigham Surgeon Who is Also a Printmaking Artist
Surgical resident Maya Srinivasan, MD, has been integrating art into medical education since she was a student in medical school.
Read MoreHow A Small Fish Could Lead to Better Strategies to Repair Tendon Tears
Mass General researcher Jenna Galloway, PhD, is using zebrafish models to find new treatment strategies for tendon injuries.
Read MoreMass General for Children Research Team is Working to Avoid the Need for Surgery in Patients with Hirschsprung Disease
Allan Goldstein, MD, and team are developing new treatment strategies for Hirschprung disease that can reduce the need for invasive surgery.
Read MoreNeurosurgery Researcher Working to Identify New Treatments for Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries
There are currently no therapeutics to treat children with traumatic brain injuries. How one Mass General researcher is working to change that.
Read MoreHeart Health Month: Learn about the Life of a Cardiac Surgeon
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.
Read MoreBiopreservation Could Revolutionize the Future of Medicine—How Mass General Researchers are Helping Us Get There
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.
Read MoreCould Smartphones Give Surgeons A Better Sense of What Postoperative Recovery Looks Like?
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.
Read MoreResearchers Develop “Supercool” Organ Preservation Technique to Give Clinicians and Recipients More Time for Transplants
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.
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