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Recent News
The Next Generation of the Opioid Epidemic: Youth Polysubstance Users
A closer look at how the opioid epidemic is impacting the youngest generation of Americans, and how Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Mass General for Children wants to change that.
Footnotes in Science: Q&A with Erin C Dunn, ScD, MPH
Mass General Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH, discusses her recent research looking at the connections between socioeconomic factors and mental health.
Benchmarks: Mass General Research News and Notes for March 10, 2023
An AI model enables Alzheimer’s disease detection from brain MRIs, smartphone apps to help with mental health and lots more.
Addressing racial, ethnic and language disparities in care management
Priscilla Wang, MD, MPH, and her team studied whether race, ethnicity and language are associated with patient entry and service intensity within a large care management program, from a structural health equity point of view.
The Science of Tea: What Research Tells Us about the Benefits of an Ancestral Tradition
Mass General clinician-researcher Uma Naidoo, MD discusses the benefits of tea, according to science.
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Dekel Lab and the Psychiatry of Childbirth
A close-up look at the Dekel Lab, which is working to understand more about the psychiatry of childbirth.
Humans of MGRI: Emily King
Emily King’s research focus is on developing and optimizing gene editing proteins for therapeutic and research applications.
Benchmarks: Mass General Research News and Notes for March 3, 2023
Your weekly dose of Mass General research news. Disparities in healthcare, job loss due to a rare disease, the tweets of the week & more.
Public Health 101: Understanding the difference between public health and public health research
How public health and public health researchers work together to identify and solve problems that impact the health of communities.
These MGH investigators are at the forefront of rare disease research
At Massachusetts General Hospital, investigators are at the forefront of rare disease research. Here is what some of them said regarding their research, what motivates them and hope for a treatment or cure.