Heart Health Month: Looking to Nature for Better Ways to Preserve Donor Hearts
Mass General’s Shannon Tessier, PhD, is drawing inspiration from nature to devise new strategies to preserve donor hearts for transplant.
Heart Health Month: Untangling the Connections Between Stress and Cardiovascular Disease
Mass General researchers Michael Osborne, MD, and Ahmed Tawakol, MD, are studying how stress-related inflammation leads to heart disease.
ICON Center Explores How Essential Connections Between the Heart and the Brain Differ by Sex
The COVID-19 pandemic is only the most recent example of the central role that sex and gender play in major medical illness.
Heart Month 2021: Spotlighting Mass General Cardiology Researchers
Since every February is dedicated to heart health awareness, we reached out to some of our cardiology researchers to see what they’re working on currently.
Mass General and MIT Researchers Collaborate to Create the First “Beating” Biorobotic Hybrid Heart
Imaging data provided by Mass General researchers helped a team from MIT build a biorobotic heart that accurately reflects the way a real heart pumps blood.
Study Suggests Diabetes Interventions Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Factors Regardless of Genetic Predisposition to Coronary Artery Disease
Two strategies for reducing cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients appear to work equally well regardless of the patient’s genetic risk for coronary artery disease.
How Chest X-Rays Could Provide New Clues About Your Future Health Risks
While one person may not be able to analyze and process all that information, computers powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can help.
Five Things To Know: How Where You Live Can Affect Your Heart Health
Does living in a low-income or high-crime neighborhood have a measurable effect on your heart health?
Study Finds A Connection Between What You Buy for Lunch at Work and Your Health
Sometimes making your lunch seems like a hassle, so buying a lunch at work can be an easy solution. But those purchases can add up after a while and take a toll on your health.
Researchers Find Immune Cells in the Gut May Affect the Speed of Your Metabolism
Researchers from Mass General have found a connection between immune cells and metabolism that could contribute diseases such as obesity, diabetes and more.
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