Mass General’s Ami Bhatt, MD, is studying how resilience programs can help reduce anxiety in patients with cardiac disease.
Mass General’s Christopher Nguyen, PhD, is using advanced cardiac imaging to help develop new therapies for heart failure.
Mass General’s Shannon Tessier, PhD, is drawing inspiration from nature to devise new strategies to preserve donor hearts for transplant.
Mass General researchers Michael Osborne, MD, and Ahmed Tawakol, MD, are studying how stress-related inflammation leads to heart disease.
The COVID-19 pandemic is only the most recent example of the central role that sex and gender play in major medical illness.
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.
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.
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.
While one person may not be able to analyze and process all that information, computers powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can help.
Does living in a low-income or high-crime neighborhood have a measurable effect on your heart health?
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