COBTH in the News

Hugh Herr, a double amputee globally famous for his robotic prosthetic program, connected Kent with Dr. Matthew Carty, the Lower Extremity Reconstruction Program director at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. Carty gave Kent hope.

In this episode of DocTalk, Theresa Cerulli, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discussed some of the challenges to come with complex ADHD and why it is not discussed enough.

"We have so many sick patients in EDs currently, the ED is not the place where you want to be if you are asymptomatic and healthy," said Dr. Sadiqa Kendi, the division chief of pediatric emergency medicine at BMC. "Finding other sites is really important."

Pediatric medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital rests on a strong base of discovery science. Here are 10 research success stories this year from across the hospital.

"It's clearly causing vaccination breakthroughs," Boston Medical Center's Dr. David Hamer said last week. "It's better able to evade the immune response from vaccination. It may not completely prevent it, but it will at least attenuate it and make the illness milder."

“There are definitely reasons to be hopeful,” said Tufts Medical Center Epidemiologist Dr. Shira Doron. Doron says the more immunity a population builds up the closer we get to a point where the virus causes fewer hospitalizations and deaths.