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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?
The IBHCRP: Breaking Down the Walls that Separate Physical and Mental Health
What if there was a simple way to help individuals prioritize their emotional health just as much as their physical health?
How Miniguts Could Help Solve the Cellular Mysteries of Celiac Disease
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an effective new way to study celiac disease using 3D organ models known as miniguts.
A Few Lessons Learned on Imposter Syndrome from Dr. Valerie Young
Have you ever felt like you are the least qualified person in the room who somehow managed to fool everyone into thinking you belong there? If so, you’re not alone, and this feeling is actually a well-known psychological phenomenon called imposter syndrome.
Five Things to Know About the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, usually referred to simply as the Martinos Center, is one of the world’s premier imaging centers, and is the result of a partnership between Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Why Climate Change Could Be Our Greatest Public Health Threat and Our Greatest Opportunity
By shifting the discussion from polar bears to pollen, Mass General researcher Renee Salas is working to raise awareness of the local impacts of climate change.
Buckner’s Death Puts New Focus on Lewy Body Dementia—A Relatively Unknown but Surprisingly Prevalent Disease
Lewy Body Dementia is an umbrella term for two different diseases—one is dementia with Lewy bodies (LBD) and the other is Parkinson’s disease with dementia.
Nutritional Psychiatry: Mental Health from a Nutrition and Lifestyle Perspective
Most people have heard the expression “you are what you eat” and think about how what they eat affects their physical health, but could food be affecting mental health too?
How We Could Slow the Spread of Candida Auris and Other Drug-Resistant Superbugs
While Candida auris may be getting all the headlines recently, the deadly fungus is one of many drug-resistant superbugs that infectious disease specialists have been fighting for years.
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.