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Uniting specialists from across the clinical spectrum, the Boston-based center signals a paradigm shift toward a more holistic amputee care model, one that promises to deliver a better experience and better health outcomes for patients.

“This is real, definable, and causes significant patient suffering,” said Bruce Levy, chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Vaishali Sanchorawala, director of the Amyloidosis Center at Boston Medical Center, said that longer-term follow up of the patients will be needed to see if the treatment can eventually reverse organ damage caused by the disease, but she is encouraged by the results so far.

Dr. Brian M. Wolpin, director of the gastrointestinal cancer center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, told me that this is such a hard cancer to find early.

A recent study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) showed vaccination during pregnancy resulted in more lasting antibody levels in infants, when compared to babies born to unvaccinated, COVID-infected mothers.

Boston Children’s Hospital will host its annual Champions for Children’s celebration on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 7:30 pm ET on WBZ-TV/CBS Boston.