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Innovations in Breast Cancer Surgery: Q+A With Dr. Sarah Persing MD, MPH
October 4, 2024
Tufts Medicine’s Dr. Sarah Persing on the benefits oncoplastics, which combines breast cancer treatment with plastic surgery techniques to restore the breast's natural appearance after cancer removal.
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Tufts Medical Center Marks 800 Heart Transplant Milestone
October 3, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant team has reached an exciting milestone, performing the hospital’s 800th heart transplant procedure in October 2024. “We’re proud to celebrate this milestone and every successful transplantation we have the privilege to perform, said Gregory Couper, MD, Surgical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program. “Each heart transplant is an opportunity for a person to live a longer and more fulfilling life, and it means countless more families and friends who get time with the people they love.”
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Your Guide to Seasonal Respiratory Illnesses
September 30, 2024
Tufts Medicine’s Shira Doron, MD, Chief Infection Control Officer, Hospital Epidemiologist and Antimicrobial Steward, Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, on preventing, identifying and treating common seasonal respiratory illnesses.
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What You Need To Know About Congestive Heart Failure
September 25, 2024
Congestive Heart Failure affects more than 6 million Americans and is the leading cause of hospital stays in adults aged 65 and older. Identifying CHF in the early stages can prolong your life. Tufts Medical Center’s Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Indranee N. Rajapreyar, MD walks you through the symptoms of the 4 stages of CHF, as well as treatments and prevention.
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Community Walks Program Aims to Improve Wellbeing of Boston's Public Housing Residents
September 12, 2024
The Community Walks clinical trial investigates the impact of adapting the environment within Boston’s public housing developments to promote physical activity.
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‘Institutional Neutrality’ Is the Way To Go for Universities
October 3, 2024
Op-ed by Shira Doron, MD, Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, about institutional neutrality.
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Abbott, Reckitt Face Trial Over Premature Baby Formula Amid Alarm From Doctors
September 30, 2024
Quote by Jonathan Davis, MD, Chief of Newborn Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, in an article about physician concerns about the discontinuation of premature baby formula in connection with a trial over claims that that formula caused severe intestinal illness.
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Synthetic THC May Calm Agitation in Alzheimer's Patients
September 30, 2024
Quotes by Brent Forester, MD, Director of Behavioral Health for Tufts Medicine and Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, in an article about his new study, which found that synthetic THC may be effective in reducing agitation in people with Alzheimer’s dementia.
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