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El temor al COVID-19 ha hecho que muchas personas no asistan a las salas de emergencia aún teniendo dolores de pecho peligrosos, vómitos constantes o entumecimientos que pudieran señalar un derrame...
View ArticleMass General Brigham Imposes Pay Cuts, Freezes Wages And Benefits As Pandemic...
Mass General Brigham, formerly Partners, is joining the long list of health care systems cutting pay and benefits to address major losses during the coronavirus pandemic. MGB says it lost $800 million...
View ArticleInside Boston Hospitals, A Reckoning With Racism
Residents at Brigham and Women's, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center are circulating petitions with specific requests. They include: providing equal care and equal access to care...
View ArticleInfectious Disease Expert Weighs In On The State's Latest Phase Of Reopening
Massachusetts restaurants can resume indoor dining today for the first time in months, as rates of COVID-19 infection continued trending downward over the weekend.
View Article'Invisible Wounds': Front-Line Health Workers Face Recovery Period That Could...
Some compare front-line medical staffers to soldiers coming off of a tough tour of duty, and say they may find psychological symptoms — from anxiety to depression to conflict — emerging as they now...
View ArticleInstagram Founders' Website: Mass. Has Lowest COVID-19 Transmission Rate In...
The current Rt for the coronavirus in Massachusetts — a measure of a virus's average transmission rate at a given point in time — is estimated at 0.67, according to the website Rt.live, comfortably...
View ArticleAvoiding Doctor's Visits Has Dire Consequences For Patients With Heart Disease
WBUR’s Angus Chen joins Morning Edition to report.
View ArticleOn Being Gay In Medicine: After The Supreme Court Victory, Still Work To Be Done
The founding dean of the new Kaiser Permanente medical school writes that while there has been great progress on LGBTQ acceptance in medicine, including a recent Supreme Court ruling, challenges remain.
View ArticleAgeism Leaves Older Patients Out Of Important Clinical Trials For COVID-19,...
Dr. Sharon Inouye, a geriatrician with Harvard Medical School and Hebrew SeniorLife, joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about ageism in COVID-19 treatments.
View ArticleAG Settles With Andover Pharmacy Over Illegal Opioid Prescribing
The allegations involve Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) in Andover, which handles prescriptions for workers injured on the job who have filed workers' compensation claims.
View ArticleBaker Announces 12 Reforms After Scathing Report On Holyoke Soldiers' Home
Reforms include changes to board of trustees and staffing, as well as new capital and infrastructure improvements
View ArticleBrigham Nurses Raise Shuttle Safety Concerns
While Mass General Brigham says it is strictly enforcing safety measures on shuttles, the Mass. Nurses Association asserts that shuttles are occupied at levels "significantly outside" accepted social...
View ArticleWhat We Know — And What We Don’t — About 'Asymptomatic COVID-19'
Much remains unclear about coronavirus cases that never involve symptoms, but they appear to represent at least 15% of cases, possibly far more, and to be potentially contagious, an infectious disease...
View ArticleThe Other Face Mask Fight: Are They Our Very Best Defense Against Coronavirus?
Evidence continues to mount that face masks are especially good defenses against coronavirus outbreaks -- if enough people wear them. But a debate is heating up in the science world about whether they...
View ArticleProviders Urge State To Stock Up On PPE For Second Wave
Health care leaders told legislators that in addition to the state developing a stockpile that could be bought into by providers if supplies run low, the state should also be thinking about securing a...
View ArticleResearch Offers New Insights Into Mysterious, Rare COVID-Related Inflammatory...
The studies, one of which was led by Boston Children's Hospital, found that the coronavirus-related illness known as multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, appeared to be caused when a child's...
View ArticleFor The First Time In Months, Mass. Recorded A Day Free Of COVID-19 Deaths
The state hasn't had a day without a recorded coronavirus-related death since March.
View ArticleExperts Feared COVID-19 Would Surge Back In Mass. After Protests, Businesses...
Health scientists believe Massachusetts residents largely have themselves to thank for that. They credit widespread adherence to basic COVID-19 precautions such as mask-wearing, hand-washing and...
View ArticleAn Infectious Disease Expert On Why Mass. Has Been Successful At Flattening...
Dr. Nadia Abuelezam, infectious disease expert and assistant professor at Boston College Connell School of Nursing, joined WBUR's Morning Edition to explain how Massachusetts' approach has been...
View ArticleLos Temores De Un Aumento De Casos De COVID-19 No Se Han Materializado En...
Pero a pesar de las protestas, de que los restaurantes comenzaron a admitir comensales en sus locales, y la lenta resurrección de las compras y otras actividades, los temores de un nuevo aumento en los...
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