GBH reports state regulators have given their OK to plans for a $1.7-billion, 14-story, 320-bed cancer hospital on land now occupied by the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/21/2025 - 9:48am
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By adamg - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 12:35pm
UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has notified students accepted for fall admission into its PhD programs in biomedical research this fall that, sorry, it's rescinding their admission "due to uncertainties related to federal funding of biomedical research." Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 9:08am
Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Iowa are looking at getting the cells of radiation patients to make a protein that could shield them from the harmful effects of their treatment - using a protein that protects the DNA of tardigrades from radiation. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 11:06pm
Federal officials swore today they have not yet carried out billions of dollars in threatened cuts for biomedical research and that they won't slice the funds until at least after a Boston judge decides at least one of the lawsuits filed over the cuts announced on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 9:58am
An oncology professor at the University of California, Irvine yesterday agreed to hand over $1.52 million in profits he made by buying stock in Nuvalent before it announced positive news about a lung-cancer drug for which he was running clinical trials and then selling it after the news led to a jump in the stock's price.
Dr. Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou also agreed to pay a $1.52 million fine on top of that, according to documents filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in US District Court in Boston yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 4:28pm
Massachusetts General Hospital today sued a New York pharmaceutical company it says agreed to pay for the hospital's ALS center to test out a new drug against the currently incurable disease, then tried to worm its way out of its financial commitment after the hospital had already done the work. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 11:24am
Bill Walczak, who once served as president of Carney Hospital, explains - and notes that a private company stationed an ambulance at the now closed hospital over the weekend, because people who needed ER care kept driving up.
By adamg - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 11:58am
City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:14pm
A woman whose father died at Brigham and Women's Hospital after a heart transplant in 2017 blames the hospital and the as yet unknown company that made the water-filtration system the hospital used in the cardiac unit where he was supposed to be recovering. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/29/2024 - 9:30am
The American Prospect reports, in hindsight, it should have been easy to figure out how Steward Health Care would begin circling the drain more than a decade ago. Key point:
For ten years, the hospital chain, which originated as an agglomeration of nun-operated Boston-area neighborhood hospitals known as Caritas Christi, was owned by the private equity firm Cerberus, which extracted more than $800 million in excess of its investment out of the hospitals, then left during the pandemic.
By adamg - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 2:16pm
The Globe reports the financial crisis at the company that owns St. Elizabeth's - and Carney Hospital in Dorchester - can have direct patient impact, like when a woman is bleeding internally but the hospital no longer had the embolization coils that might have stopped the bleeding because it couldn't pay for them, and she has to be transferred across the city to another hospital, but by then it's too late and she dies.
By adamg - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 12:24pm
Draganfly, a Saskatoon-based drone maker, announced this week that Mass General Brigham will use its cargo drones to get around the Boston area's notorious traffic by delivering to its home patients from the air.
The company makes drones with drop-down winches and "quick-release delivery boxes" that can whiz around with up to 67 pounds of stuff, driven by pilots sitting in a command center.
By adamg - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 7:38pm
Researchers who looked at data from Massachusetts Planned Parenthood clinics from 2018 through October, 2022 found a small but significant increase in the number of people coming into Massachusetts for abortions following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in June, 2022, even though we don't border any states where abortion is now banned.
By adamg - Mon, 04/10/2023 - 5:16pm
Gov. Healey announced today that that Massachusetts health-care providers have started stockpiling mifepristone in advance of potential judicial action to ban its sale, despite 20 years of use showing its safer than many other drugs, including Viagra, but nobody is talking about denying men a right to erections. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 9:18pm
As expected, a federal judge in Texas overturned FDA approval of mifepristone. Gov. Maura Healey said tonight it will remain available in Massachusetts: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 2:36pm
Ryan Grannan-Doll reports:
Just tried to pickup meds at CVS in Newtonville. Pharmacist told me CVS computer network is down NATIONWIDE. No Rx filling or selling. No timeline for fix.
By adamg - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 9:40am
GBH reports the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center has set up a patient advocate office in response to allegations of poor medical treatment at the facility.
By adamg - Tue, 01/05/2021 - 9:30am
MIT News reports on efforts at the Institute to study the human microbiome - all the zillions of microorganisms that cohabit in your body - to see if there are ways to improve human health. One example: Microorganisms living in the digestive tract have been linked to several diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, several cancers and Alzheimer's.
By adamg - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 9:00am
WBUR reports on efforts by Black residents at Mass. General, Brigham and Women's and Boston Medical Center to boost both minority employment and do more about health disparities between white and minority patients.
By adamg - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 1:48pm
As he has done for several days now, Gov. Baker used part of his daily press conference today to urge people with non-Covid-19 health issues to call their doctors or 911. But this time, he was joined by executives at three hospitals, who reported many people are trying to wait out symptoms at home, which means they eventually come into the hospital far sicker - and sometimes beyond help. Read more.
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