COBTH in the News

Dana-Farber and Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center to connect patients to cancer services

May 4, 2021

Mirage News

This program, based out of Dana-Farber’s Cancer Care Equity Program, will help address persistent health care disparities faced in local communities.

Researchers identify protein "signature" of severe COVID-19

May 4, 2021

EurekAlert | AAAS

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have identified the protein "signature" of severe COVID-19, which they describe in a new study published in Cell Reports Medicine.

In Longwood Medical Area, jobs were being added about twice as fast as in the state overall

May 3, 2021

Boston Globe

The Longwood Medical Area has come a long way from the days when Boston Children’s Hospital set up shop on Huntington Avenue with 60 beds and a herd of cows to provide kids with tuberculosis-free milk.

Health Care Workers Turn To Military Techniques To Deal With Trauma

May 3, 2021

WBUR

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is one of the latest hospitals to start a battle buddy program.

Waltham biotech raises $110 million for gene therapy treatments

May 3, 2021

Boston Globe

Affinia Therapeutics, a Waltham-based biotech working on gene therapies to treat diseases using technology developed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, said Monday it has raised $110 million in a new venture capital round.

Researchers Seek Antiviral Pill That Would Ease COVID Severity

April 30, 2021

HealthDay

"We need a pill that can keep people out of the hospital, and the time to develop that is right now," Dr. Rajesh Gandhi said during a Thursday media briefing by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is director of HIV Clinical Services and Education at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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