COBTH in the News

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, associate director, Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses tailoring HER2-directed therapies in the treatment of patients with breast cancer.

The Cambridge Health Alliance has gone into the hardest-hit communities.

"While drinking water may seem uniformly healthy, low levels of lead contamination found in the majority of drinking water systems in the United States may have toxic effects for those with chronic kidney disease," said lead author Dr. John Danziger, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Atypical moles are irregular moles that can appear anywhere on the body. They are more commonly found on people with fair skin, as well as those with many freckles and moles on the body (more than 50).

So far, no studies have documented the rate in the U.S., something Alicia Johnston, a pediatric infectious disease clinician at Boston Children’s Hospital, attributes to everyone’s early focus on older adults.

A recent study published in Nature found that 37 percent of heat-related deaths are due to climate change. Dr. Renee Salas is seeing this in the emergency room of Massachusetts General Hospital.