A boost from Boston in Rwanda’s cancer fight
Butaro Hospital, the first cancer ward in rural East Africa, opened last week with a big helping of Boston medical know-how.
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Mass. General named best hospital in US
Massachusetts General Hospital leaped past Johns Hopkins Hospital to take the top spot in US News and World Report’s annual rankings for the first time.
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Brigham implants first total artificial heart in New England
Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital implanted the heart in a 66-year-old former teacher from the South Shore.
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As records go online, clash over mental care privacy
Patients, hospitals, and doctors are wrestling with privacy issues as providers in separate networks are preparing to share records more widely online.
OPINION | MAKING HEALTH CARE AFFORDABLE
In Elinor Ostrom’s legacy, a lesson for Beacon Hill
The work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who died last week, should inspire the state as it looks for ways to rein in health care costs, writes former Medicare chief Donald M. Berwick.
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Patients driving direction of new drug research
Patients and their families are working with pharmaceutical companies, matching patients with clinical trials, paying for research, and lobbying to speed drug development.
The architects of a new kind of health care
The young architects behind MASS Design are bringing their philosophy to health-care projects around the world, from Rwanda and Uganda to Haiti and back home.
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Healthy doses of respect in medicine
Dr. Lucian Leape, a founder of the national patient safety movement, recently published two papers about respect in medicine.
Spine-injured rats walk in experiment
- Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk. Now there’s a striking new demonstration of how one approach might work: Spinal nerve stimulation helped rats walk and climb stairs.
EDITORIAL
Helium shortage is no laughing matter
- The US faces a shortage of helium - useful in a range of applications, including medicine - because of a hamfisted 1996 law.
