If there is any silver lining in the violent Marathon attacks Monday, it is that Boston is home to some of the world’s finest hospitals, physicians, nurses, and medical staff. These highly trained professionals must be thanked and praised for their calm, heroic response in the face of unprecedented carnage. They not only ably treated the wounded but also provided some of the most accurate information available in the first hours after the explosions.
Dr. David Mooney sees bleeding children all the time. As director of the trauma program at Boston Children’s Hospital, he knows how to soothe overreacting kids and their parents, and most times “the wounds aren’t quite as bad as advertised,” he said. Monday was different. Monday left him speechless. The children being hauled into Boston Children’s Hospital didn’t need to say a word to express the severity of the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
A city whose hospitals and physicians are renowned for research and cutting-edge surgical innovations faced a starkly different challenge Monday, treating scores of injuries more commonly found in a war zone.
U.S. News’ e-book, How to Live to 100, contains money, health and happiness keys to more enriching and, possibly, longer lives. Nancy Keating, HMS associate professor of health care policy, was featured in the video.
Hospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients need to treat surgical complications that could have been prevented, a new study finds. Atul A. Gawande, HMS professor of surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is an author of the study.
Jeffrey Karp, HMS associate professor of medicine, and his team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have spent many years developing medical adhesives, constantly looking to nature for inspiration.
Last fall, a consensus panel convened by the American Diabetes Association and the American Geriatrics Society warned that while doctors know how to help middle-aged patients prevent and manage diabetes, far less is known about managing older adults. Medha Munshi, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Joslin Diabetes Center, is quoted.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have made functioning rat kidneys in the laboratory, a bioengineering achievement that may one day lead to the ability to create replacement organs for people with kidney disease. Harald C. Ott, HMS instructor in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of the paper.
According to researchers, mindfulness meditation, and learning to quiet the mind and get rid of negative thoughts can reduce stress and improve your health. David Vago, HMS instructor in psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you’re not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you’re also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Sat Bir Khalsa, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
