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Massachusetts General Hospital has received a $100 million gift from Boston entrepreneur and philanthropist Herb Chambers in support of a new state-of-the-art<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

An 8-year-old Indiana girl will celebrate the holidays at home following a seven-month stay in the hospital after receiving a new heart in a real-life Christmas miracle.

The team implanted a new type of defibrillator in a 2-year-old boy with a genetic heart defect. It's called an extravascular ...

Hospital and health system leaders work hard to ensure their organizations can deliver high-quality care, comply with evolving regulations, embrace technological innovation and adapt to a rapidly ...

Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.

Two weeks into a new job as an in-house lawyer in Boston, Saraa Basaria wanted to make a good impression. So for a company ...

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With the help of an AI tool, computed tomography (CT) scans taken originally to look for tumors or bleeding or infections, also revealed calcium buildup in arteries, a sign of worsening cardiovascular ...

Inexplicable medical mistakes like this are called “never events,” and they aren’t quite as rare as their name suggests.

Obesity can be deadly for people living with it, but we have potential treatments that can lead to weight loss and improvement in comorbidities.