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Hospitals seek mask donations - and help from people who could make them on 3D printers or sew them

By adamg - 3/19/20 - 2:10 pm

Cambridge Health Alliance is seeking donations of N95 and paper masks, paper protective gowns and protective goggles and glasses. Read more.

Coronavirus cases increasing rapidly at area hospitals

By adamg - 3/19/20 - 10:37 am

WBUR reports Mass. General now has five patients with Covid-19 in its ICU and another 70 suspected cases in patients doing well enough to not need intensive care.

The Dorchester Reporter reports Carney Hospital is now banning all visitors - and has shut its Dunkin' Donuts - as it transitions to an all-coronavirus facility.

Mass. General doctor who rides his bike to work has it stolen; asks for it back

By adamg - 3/19/20 - 9:31 am

The doctor reports man folks have offered to loan him a bike, but he's had his 2007 Dahon for 13 years and he likes it back and besides, it's basically held together with duct tape and would be near worthless on the open market. He adds: Read more.

Large hospitals plead with researchers for stuff in their labs that could be used to create coronavirus test kits

By adamg - 3/17/20 - 10:29 am

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mass. General have issued a plea to researchers who might have the instruments and components they would need to begin producing Covid-19 test kits: Read more.

Mass. General, Brigham and Women's, Harvard Medical School shutting down most research labs to try to slow spread of coronavirus

By adamg - 3/16/20 - 9:30 am

Officials at Partners HealthCare - which includes MGH, Brigham and Women's and McLean Hospital - yesterday directed their large research staffs to begin shutting down their labs to keep people away from each other, and told them to expect the labs to stay shut for up to eight weeks. Researchers working on Covid-19, however, will be allowed to continue their lab work. Read more.

MGH cancelling elective surgeries and clinical visits

By Irma la Douce - 3/13/20 - 4:23 pm

For at least the next three weeks, no dates set for rescheduling. (Source: call from one of the surgery depts cancelling a follow-up appt.)

Did the woman in 'strict isolation' at the hospital with a bad respiratory infection have coronavirus? Who knows - the hospital didn't have enough test kits to find out

By adamg - 3/12/20 - 9:46 am

Hillary Diane reports what happened when she went to the Mass. General emergency room yesterday with flu-like symptoms and she was brought up to the hospital's Covid-19 clinic and then tested negative on a flu test: Read more.

Hospital physician: The possible coronavirus patients keep coming, but we don't have enough tests for them all

By adamg - 3/11/20 - 10:11 pm

Dr. Monique Aurora Tello, a primary-care physician at Mass. General, reported today from the MGH emergency room:

Despite what Dear Leader says, it's really hard to get a coronavirus test

By adamg - 3/10/20 - 12:09 am

Amy Proal is a microbiologist who has had what could be Covid-19 symptoms since Feb. 23 - two days after her boyfriend developed the same symptoms. She writes about how hard, almost impossible, actually, it is to get tested for the virus: Read more.

Chinese researcher nabbed with liquid-filled vials at Logan not first snagged in federal crackdown; at least 18 similar seizures at airport this year

By adamg - 12/20/19 - 11:08 am

Two days after prosecutors unsealed the case against a Chinese researcher they charge tried to sneak 21 vials of biological samples from Beth Israel out of the country, Brigham and Women's Hospital is warning all of its doctors and researchers not to make the same mistake. Read more

Mass General to create mock-up of a safe-injection site

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 9:04 am

The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports that MGH will create a mock supervised-injection facility at its Charlestown offices next week to show the public what it would be like if a hospital opened a place where opioid users could shoot up under medical supervision. Read more.

New Mass. General buildings would be designed to survive battering from a superstorm - or terrorists

By adamg - 2/21/19 - 11:43 am

Map of proposed new buildings at Massachusetts General Hospital

Where the new buildings would go.

Massachusetts General Hospital this week filed its plans for a $1-billion project that would not only provide "21st century care in a 21st century environment" but create "a place of refuge" where hospital staffers and patients could shelter for up to four days in the face of the worst nature - or man - could throw at Boston. Read more.

MGH proposes $1-billion expansion

By adamg - 1/23/19 - 2:36 pm

WBUR reports on Mass. General's plans, which includes two new 12-story buildings and 450 single-patient rooms.

Three Boston hospitals agree to fines for letting ABC film documentary there

By adamg - 9/21/18 - 8:45 am

The Herald reports Mass. General, Brigham and Women’s and Boston Medical Center agreed to share a total of $1 million in fines for violating patient privacy during the filming of ABC's "Save My Life: Boston Trauma” in 2014 and 2015 - although the hospitals say they didn't violate patient privacy.

Two killed in Canadian avalanche were Mass. General doctors

By adamg - 3/27/17 - 8:19 pm

NBC Boston reports.

Mass. General performs nation's first penis transplant

By adamg - 5/16/16 - 7:39 am

The Times reports.

Mr. Manning welcomed questions and said he wanted to speak out publicly to help dispel the shame and stigma associated with genital cancers and injuries, and to let other men know there was hope of having normal anatomy restored.

More details from MGH.
Patient's statement.

Car catches fire in Mass. General garage

By adamg - 4/7/16 - 10:22 am

Smoke rising from Mass. General garage fire

Smoke rising from the car fire. Photo by Kenny Jervis.

Around 10:20 a.m. on the third floor of the garage off Cambridge and North Anderson streets. Firefighters quickly doused the flames.

Hacking the public-health response to the Zika virus at MGH

By adamg - 3/18/16 - 9:50 am

Mass. General's Center for Global Health is hosting a hackathon next month to try to develop products and techniques to slow the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus:

Attention designers, engineers, clinicians and all innovators! We need your knowledge and expertise for a 48-hour hack-a-thon to create new product concepts, design novel personal protective equipment and develop new methods for local vector control that will help bend the curve of the Zika epidemic and similar outbreaks.

Would you want a surgeon to operate on you if you knew he had booked surgery for another patient at the same time?

By adamg - 10/25/15 - 12:36 pm

The Globe takes a detailed look at the practice in the orthopedic surgery department at Mass. General: The hospital says it's safe, lets surgeons in training gain valuable experience and, oh, yeah, brings in more revenue. Other Boston hospitals don't allow it except in emergencies.

Court: Top orthopedic docs at Mass. General may have been a grumpy lot, but they didn't discriminate against a young woman surgeon

By adamg - 10/11/15 - 2:32 pm

The US Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a jury verdict dismissing a young surgeon's sex-discrimination suit against Mass. General, ruling that it saw nothing wrong in the jury's decision or in a judge's decision to bar some of her claims because she waited to long to sue under the federal statute of limitations. Read more.

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