With more than 70,000 people with HIV now insured by Medicare, what are the trends in antiretroviral therapy (ART) use from 2013-2019 among Medicare beneficiaries with HIV and what racial disparities exist in ART use?
Clinical trial generates promising results for brigatinib as a treatment for the genetic condition, which is characterized by brain and nerve sheath tumors.
MGH’s Age Positively Program, a partnership between the Geriatric Medicine and Infectious Diseases divisions, provides care and resources to enhance the care and well-being of people with HIV as they age.
The new discovery provides a potential therapeutic target to prevent permanent scarring in human hearts, allowing heart cells to regenerate.
Immune activation in a pregnant woman can occur in response to metabolic diseases like obesity, infections in pregnancy, exposure to pollution and environmental toxins, or even stress and can have negative effects on fetal brain immune cells (microglia).
Patients with advanced lung cancer who received stepped palliative care reported similar quality of life (QOL) scores as those who received monthly palliative care visits from the time of diagnosis.
In a double-blind, randomized, cross-over study of adults who use cannabis regularly, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital assessed participants’ brain activity under the influence of THC (the main psychoactive component in cannabis) versus placebo.
BCG-treated individuals had a significantly lower rate of COVID-19 infection compared with the placebo group and a significantly lower rate of infectious diseases overall.
Mass General study projects life expectancy gaps of 10.4 years and 11.8 years for male and female youths, respectively, living with HIV compared to individuals without HIV
Camille E. Powe, MD, a physician investigator in the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and a team of investigators in both Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at MGH published the results of a new study in Nature Medicine, Placental IGFBP1 Levels During Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Insulin Resistance and Gestational Diabetes.
Mass General offers specialized residencies and fellowships in each of our multidisciplinary care centers and clinical departments, as well as observerships, clerkships and continuing medical education.
