Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) now describe a patient with severe COVID-19 who, despite prolonged unresponsiveness and structural brain abnormalities, demonstrated functionally intact brain connections and weeks later he recovered the ability to follow commands....
As opioid pills and patches fueled a two-decade epidemic of overdoses in the United States, hospitals faced chronic shortages of the same painkillers in injectable form - narcotics vital to patients on breathing machines....
Dr. Devinder Singh, a cardiology fellow at Cooper Health in Camden, New Jersey, doesn't typically work in the intensive care unit. But during most of May, that's the place you would have found him: caring for coronavirus patients suffering from breathing difficulties, blood clots, and other complications....
Turning ventilated patients onto their stomachs, called proning, helps them by opening their lungs. Now doctors are testing to see if it can keep others off ventilators altogether....
As the numbers of new cases plateaus at the state's largest hospital, MGH has begun turning its attention to what happens on the other side of the crisis....
Alistair Erskine, MD, chief digital health officer of Mass General Brigham in Boston, outlined how he sees hospital rooms changing in the future as part of the World Medical Innovation Forum, a virtual event held on May 11....
A consortium of scientists with expertise in big data research and epidemiology recently developed a COVID Symptom Tracker app aimed at rapidly collecting information to aid in the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As reported in the journal Science, early use of the app...
AAVCOVID technology is unique in the vaccine field in its ability to scale and adapt rapidly. Aiming to enter clinical testing later this year....
Thousands of procedures have been pushed back because of COVID-19. Now hospitals have to make it safe for those patients to return....
As some states across the country begin loosening restrictions meant to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a new interactive online tool from Massachusetts General Hospital allows public health experts and armchair epidemiologists to chart the possible outcomes of different reopening strategies....
