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Heart Health Month: Reducing Health-Related Anxiety in Patients with Heart Disease

By Brian Burns | February 24, 2022

Mass General’s Ami Bhatt, MD, is studying how resilience programs can help reduce anxiety in patients with cardiac disease.

Heart Health Month: How Cardiac Imaging Can Give Us a Better Understanding of Heart Failure

By Brian Burns | February 15, 2022

Mass General’s Christopher Nguyen, PhD, is using advanced cardiac imaging to help develop new therapies for heart failure.

Heart Health Month: Looking to Nature for Better Ways to Preserve Donor Hearts

By Brian Burns | February 10, 2022

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

By Brian Burns | February 1, 2022

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

By Brian Burns | February 23, 2021

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

By Gloria Rosado | February 16, 2021

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

By Brian Burns | January 12, 2021

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

By Brian Burns | December 19, 2019

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

By Brian Burns | August 8, 2019

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

By Brian Burns | July 2, 2019

Does living in a low-income or high-crime neighborhood have a measurable effect on your heart health?

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