Clinic Aids Victims of Human Trafficking...
A Massachusetts teenager, forced into the sex trade by a human trafficker, builds a new life with the help of the MGH Freedom Clinic.
Innovation Targets Postpartum Complications...
By developing a simple device to prevent postpartum bleeding, a Mass General team seeks a sustainable solution for a deadly global problem.
Strange Symptoms Provide Disease Discovery Clues...
Sparked by inexplicable symptoms in one patient, an intrepid physician’s investigation led to the discovery of a new disease that afflicts many worldwide.
Santander Advances Cancer Research Innovation...
Through its support of cancer research fellowships, Santander is playing a crucial role in Mass General’s development of new targeted cancer therapies.
Family Raises Awareness and Funding for Lung Cancer...
When a beloved wife and mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, her family sought out the best care at Mass General and worked tirelessly to raise public awareness and research funds.
All-Grown-Up with Autism: The Lurie Center Fills a Need...
Ron Suskind’s son, Owen, is 23. That would be unremarkable except that Owen has autism, says Mr. Suskind, the Cambridge-based Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. For young people with autism, age 22 and beyond is a time of uncertainty because they no […]
Emergency Surgery Saves Beloved Mother with Alzheimer’s Disease...
When a wife and mother with advanced Alzheimer’s disease arrived late at night at Mass General with a life-threatening condition, her family and the medical team faced the most difficult decision of all.
Second MGH Disaster Team to Aid Typhoon Haiyan Victims...
Aiming to address primary care and reproductive health issues arising from Typhoon Haiyan, a second team of MGH volunteers is bound for the Philippines.
Typhoon Haiyan Victims Aided by Mass General Team...
Victims of Typhoon Haiyan have lined up by the hundreds to seek care and medications from an MGH disaster response team dispatched to the island nation.
MGH Tests Bionic Pancreas in Type 1 Diabetes Patients...
Aiming to improve the lives of millions with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, an MGH researcher is part of an effort to design and test a “bionic pancreas.”