The risk for cardiovascular events is reduced in statin-treated patients with elevated triglycerides and a history of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) who receive icosapent ethyl, according to a study published online ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Current and planned firearm ownership is common among individuals with major depressive symptoms, according to a study published online March 21 in JAMA Network Open.
Mar 24, 2022
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The Omicron surge has led to a previously unrecognized complication of COVID-19 in young children: croup. In the first peer-reviewed report to date, physicians at Boston Children's Hospital describe 75 children who came to ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Results from new research suggest that protective measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Massachusetts were associated with an increase in firearm injuries during the first year of the pandemic. Led by researchers ...
Feb 8, 2022
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A Boston hospital is defending itself after a man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set similar requirements to improve ...
Jan 27, 2022
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(HealthDay)—U.S. adults are generally willing to use video visits but prefer in-person care for a nonemergency health issue, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 14, 2021
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New study results demonstrate that unstable housing and homelessness is associated with a two-fold greater chance of being re-infected with SARS-CoV-2 compared to those who are securely housed. Led by researchers at Boston ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Two new studies report that COVID-19 vaccination strongly protects against both infection and serious illness, respectively among adolescents age 12 to 18. Both studies covered periods when the highly contagious Delta variant ...
Oct 21, 2021
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A blood shortage has forced some New England hospitals to delay or reschedule surgeries.
Jun 22, 2021
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A Boston violence intervention advocacy program is effectively engaging the client population that hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) have been designed to support. This is the conclusion of a study titled ...
Mar 8, 2021
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