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Recent News
Heart Health Month: Reducing the Risks for Pregnant Women with Heart Disease
Nandita Scott, MD, and the team at the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program are working to reduce the impact of cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy.
Heart Health Month: Reducing Health-Related Anxiety in Patients with Heart Disease
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
Mass General’s Christopher Nguyen, PhD, is using advanced cardiac imaging to help develop new therapies for heart failure.
Spike in Alcohol Consumption During COVID-19 Could Have Long-Term Health Consequences
A simulation model projects a worrying rise in alcohol-related liver disease and death as a result of drinking increases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Study Finds More Efforts Are Needed to Increase Diversity Among Cancer Clinicians
The findings highlight the need for more initiatives to recruit and retain individuals from underrepresented groups.
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.
Scholars Program Seeks to Reduce Health Disparities by Empowering A Diverse Nursing Research Workforce
The goal is to increase the numbers of culturally diverse nurses who will consider research as part of their career path.
Mass General Gastroenterology and Tufts University Receive NIH Funding to Study Individual Responses to Food and Dietary Patterns
The project aims to improve our understanding of nutrition and inform more personalized nutrition recommendations.
Research Wrapped for 2021: The Year in Research at Massachusetts General Hospital
Despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was another record setting year for research at Massachusetts General Hospital.