COBTH in the News

The CEO and family of Quincy-based Granite Telecommunications has given $50 million to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in support of pancreatic cancer research.

Since 2012, Boston Medical Center has lowered its energy use by nearly 40 percent and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions from all sources of energy by 90 percent while caring for more patients.

"Our estimates are likely low, considering we know there are a large number of patients not yet diagnosed with a disorder like sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome and insomnia," said researcher Dr. Neil Bhattacharyya, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital in Boston.

In 2019, Dr. Richard Leiter, a palliative care specialist, met a patient and the man’s wife in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

The fact that it's a long-term therapy means drug companies can make a lot of money, even on relatively rare diseases, said Dr. George Demetri, director of the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

"It sounds a bit like science fiction to be injecting billions of tiny little virus particles under the retina so that they can go make spelling corrections of the gene inside a patient's own retinal cells," said Dr. Eric Pierce of Mass Eye and Ear.