This beautiful mural, created by Joan Aylward of ChalkBOS (pictured above), is now on display in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Brigham. The mural offers a versatile photo opportunity for families celebrating milestones and visitors can add messages to the chalkboard area. “It’s such a special place filled with special caregivers and special little fighters,” said Aylward. “The hummingbird is known for being small in size, but also for its fighting spirit and resilience. It’s a perfect NICU mascot.”
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Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, BWH has a legacy of excellence that continues to grow. With two outstanding hospitals, over 150 outpatient practices, and over 1,200 physicians, we serve patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from 120 countries around the world. The BWH name is a reflection of our history. In 1980 three of Boston’s oldest and most prestigious Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals - the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, and the Boston Hospital for Women – merged to form Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a national leader in improving health care quality and safety, we have helped to develop some of the industry’s best practices including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to prevent medication errors. The CPOE is now a nationally-accepted safety practice. The BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) is one of the most powerful biomedical research institutes in the world and the second largest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding among independent hospitals in the United States. BWH has long had great success in research as measured by the number of important discoveries made, the size and scope of its research portfolio and the volume of publications annually. BWH is a training ground for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. We have 1,100 trainees in over 140 of the most sought after training programs in the world, and also host Harvard Medical School students in rotations throughout our programs. As our global health services expand, our clinical trainees have rich opportunities to contribute and learn in challenging environments around the world. Brigham and Women's Hospital is an EEO, AA, VEVRAA Employer.
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Our littlest lucky charms at Mass General Brigham are stealing hearts this St. Patrick’s Day! Wishing you a day filled with love, laughter, and a little extra luck! 🍀
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Endometriosis is often referred to as the “missed disease” because it can take years to diagnose and people experience a variety of symptoms. This #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth, Louise Perkins King, MD, JD, a gynecologic surgeon in the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecology Surgery at the Brigham, shares her insights on the disease. "Endometriosis is a complex diagnosis,” says Dr. King, “The ideal way to approach it is multidisciplinary care and an individualized approach. Patients with very refractory (difficult to treat) disease do best if they can access care from a team that includes multiple specialists. This might include pelvic floor therapists, endocrinologists, and surgeons, among others. Other patients respond well to good surgery and use of birth control pills. It’s about treating each patient as an individual and learning what they do and don’t need.” Learn more:
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Are you feeling a bit out of it this week? As we adjust to daylight saving time, sleep scientist Rebecca Robbins, PhD, MSc, MS, joined this NBC News segment to talk about the effects.
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Our researchers are introducing exciting new innovations! Yuhan Lee, PhD, from the Department of Anesthesia, and his collaborators have created a revolutionary adhesive that can change the way we attach medical devices inside the body. This bioadhesive is reliable, easy to use on tissues and improves patient safety by ensuring devices stay securely in place.
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Mass General Brigham researchers looked at the role of long-term diet and the gut bacteria, commonly found in yogurt, in colorectal cancer using data on participants who had been followed for three decades. They found that people who consumed two or more servings of yogurt per week tended to have lower rates of colorectal cancer positive for Bifidobacterium. The findings suggest that yogurt consumption may change the microbiome, leading to a protective effect for some types of colorectal cancer. http://spklr.io/6043NaW3 #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth
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Researchers at the Brigham have created a new test, ExoTRU™, to non-invasively diagnose and predict organ rejection in patients who have undergone a kidney transplant. The test predicts rejection years before it occurs and outperforms traditional tissue biopsies in identifying patients at risk of future rejection.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital has launched a clinic offering high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) to screen earlier for anal dysplasia in high-risk populations, including those with HPV infection and HIV. HRA is a minimally invasive procedure, and the clinic provides a range of follow-up care, including ablation and surgery. The clinic run by James Yoo, MD, and Jennifer A. Johnson, MD, also educates healthcare providers on identifying at-risk patients earlier and advocates for HPV vaccination to prevent anal cancer. http://spklr.io/6043NmPV
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