Partner Therapeutics, Inc. (PTx), a commercial biotechnology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Leukine® (sargramostim), a yeast-derived recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhu-GM-CSF), for the treatment of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP).

New Assays empower Clinicians to more quickly make the right diagnosis at the point-of-care and prescribe the right treatment

For someone experiencing cardiac symptoms in the emergency room, every minute matters as physicians determine whether someone is having a heart attack.

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design lab, announced a new research collaboration aimed at supporting patients in emergency care seeking treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).

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Pioneer applauds the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) on its recent release of all data behind its consumer facing CompareCare pricing tool for Massachusetts consumers.

A study of women giving birth in Massachusetts found a higher level of opioid use disorder than have studies conducted in other states.

Fortifying grain-based foods with folic acid – instituted in the U.S. in the 1990s to prevent neural tube defects in infants – may also reduce the incidence of severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia that initially appear in young adulthood.

The balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in the tissues of female mammals, which previous research has suggested can impact the incidence of obesity in their offspring, appears to do so through its effect on the microbial population of the infant’s gastrointestinal tract.

The late spring and early summer are great times to get outside and hike, play sports or barbecue with family and friends.

Virtual follow-up visits for patients with hypertension appeared to be just as effective as in-person office visits in helping maintain blood pressure control.

Risk factors for heart disease and stroke appear to hasten the risk of cognitive decline in normal older individuals with evidence of very early Alzheimer’s-disease-associated changes in the brain.

An automated system for identifying patients at risk for complications associated with the use of mechanical ventilators provided significantly more accurate results than did traditional surveillance methods, which rely on manual recording and interpretation of individual patient data.

Have you ever heard an idea so good and obvious that you can’t believe it hadn’t been thought of before?

Cystic fibrosis sufferers, their families and physicians are fighting back against proposals that they claim could curb access to treatments.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Duke University and the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have used machine learning algorithms to spot otherwise undetectable patterns within communities of bacteria living in the human gut.

An HIV treatment regimen already widely used in North America and Europe would likely increase the life expectancy of people living with HIV in India by nearly three years and reduce the number of new HIV infections by 23 percent with minimal impact on the country’s HIV/AIDS budget.

Mismatch between two MRI methods could signify early stroke status, allowing use of "clot busting" drug

More than a quarter of young people seeking treatment had history of at least one overdose

Persistent stress in adolescence appears to raise vulnerability through elevated ghrelin levels in rat model and in humans