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Massachusetts-based Lumicell says LumiSystem, its fluorescence-guided imaging technology, can be used to find residual cancer after a tumor is removed

Technology developed in Massachusetts to help detect remnants of breast cancer after a lumpectomy is giving women hope.

A Boston medical worker was sentenced with 9-12 years in state prison followed by 3 years of probation Friday after being found guilty of six counts of indecent assault and battery in early March. Damien Knighton, 41, was also ordered to register as a sex offender and never work in the medical field in Massachusetts again, according to the Suffolk…

A man accused of sexually assaulting four people while he was a medical assistant at a Boston health center was found guilty on all but one charge Monday.

As Pope Francis’ failing health shows a slight improvement, according to the Vatican, we spoke to Massachusetts General Hospital geriatric medicine expert Dr. Matthew Russell about what the kind of treatment the pontiff is getting may mean....

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Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts’ largest employer, has announced the largest layoffs in the hospital system’s history, citing a $250 million budget shortfall. MGB CEO Anne Klibanski informed employees of the impending cuts via email on Monday. Hundreds of management and administrative positions will be eliminated within the next couple of months. While MGB has stated that patient care will not…

Massachusetts’ largest private employer says it needs to cut payroll costs by more than $200 million.

Treating addiction is personal for Dr. Sarah “SK” Kler, the first ever Matthew Perry Foundation fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital.

A large brush fire is burning on Thursday near Prankers Pond in Saugus, Massachusetts.

Cases of walking pneumonia increased in the United States this year, with the largest increase among young children. The lung infection is caused by a bacteria called Mycoplasma pneumoniae and the infections are generally mild, hence the name. “People aren’t as sick, they might not be feeling 100%, but they’re still going about their daily business,” said Dr. Vandana...

The CDC says there’s been a surge in “walking pneumonia” cases this year, particularly among children.

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Mass General Brigham is no longer delaying non-emergency procedures due to a shortage of intravenous fluids, but said rationing is continuing.

Three employees of Massachusetts’ largest health care system have been fired over a “privacy incident” concerning the personal information of patients. Mass General Brigham said in a press release Friday that it learned earlier this year that unauthorized access to some patients’ and policy holders’ information may have been granted. The hospital system said it was notifying certain Massachusetts residents…

A Massachusetts man who received the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday.

Richard Slayman of Weymouth was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after receiving the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant.

A Weymouth man has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after a pig kidney transplant.

A first of its kind surgery happened in Boston. A surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital has performed the world’s very first  genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a Weymouth man. 

Doctors in Boston say they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday it’s the first time a pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously pig kidneys have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Also, two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months. The hospital...

An experimental new treatment for glioblastoma, the kind of brain cancer that killed Sen. John McCain and beloved Boston Celtics executive Heather Walker, dramatically shrank brain tumors in three patients, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study — an early sign it could be an effective treatment.

Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients. The experiments are just first steps but they signal a new strategy to fight hard-to-treat glioblastoma. It’s a twist on the CAR-T therapy already used to treat leukemia, by modifying patients’ own disease-fighting T cells to be better cancer...