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Meet a Mass General Postdoc: Xavier Fernando Vela Parada
In honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, all this week we’ll be sharing profiles of just a few of our amazing Mass General postdocs to highlight their research and what inspires them.
Meet a Mass General Postdoc: Echoe Bouta
In honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, all this week we’ll be sharing profiles of just a few of our amazing Mass General postdocs to highlight their research and what inspires them.
Meet a Mass General Postdoc: Robert Lochhead
This week is National Postdoc Appreciation Week, a time to recognize the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to the research community.
Researchers and Clinicians Revolutionize Prevention Efforts for Brain Disease
The Institute for Brain Health at Mass General is revolutionizing the way we treat brain disease by developing new strategies for prevention, risk reduction and early treatment.
Obesity Prevention Researchers Make Strides with First 1,000 Days Program
How early should we start taking steps to prevent childhood obesity? It could be before the baby is even born.
Hackathon Revolutionizes Care with Plan to Reduce Deadly Opiate Overdoses
A Mass General team is working to reduce the deadly toll of opioid overdoses by putting Narcan in the hands of citizen volunteers.
More than Just Hindering Fires – Can Flame Retardants Interfere with Fertility?
In a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a team of researchers investigated the potential connection between exposure to flame retardant chemicals found in household products— called PFRs — and pregnancy.
Evaluating the Impact of Cutbacks to HIV Programs in Resource-Limited Nations
Proposed reductions in U.S. foreign aid would have a devastating impact on HIV treatment and prevention programs in countries receiving such aid, an international team of investigators reports. In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Yale School of Public Health describes
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Science Writing: Nine Tips to Make Your Journal Articles Shine
Here are nine helpful tips on writing journal articles by Anne Marie Weber-Main, PhD, and Anne Joseph, MD, MPH, from the University of Minnesota.
Cuts to NIH Program Could Disrupt Infectious Disease Research at Mass General and Around the World
Mass General researchers working to stop the spread of infectious disease are worried that proposed cuts to the NIH budget would eliminate a key resource for global health efforts.