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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, and California Institute of Technology have devised a system for localizing and tracking wireless microdevices inside the GI tract in real-time and in non-clinical settings, with millimeter-scale spatial resolution and no need for X-ray radiation.
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3D-printed patient-specific unicompartmental knee arthroplasty implants have become commercially available. Jeffrey K. Lange, MD, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues have published the first report on the short-term survivorship of this implant, which they found to be excellent.
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Leaders from the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are honored to join international colleagues at the world’s premier event in endocrinology research and clinical care: the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting. ENDO 2023 takes place June 15–18 in Chicago, IL.
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A Mass General Brigham study suggests nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir (Paxlovid) reduces COVID-19 severity even in highly vaccinated adults over the age of 50. In this Q&A, Scott Dryden-Peterson, MD, MSc, and Ann Woolley, MD, MPH, discuss key takeaways from the study and describe best methods for prescribing Paxlovid.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers are the first to characterize Plpp6, a mouse homolog of PLPP6, as a polyisoprenyl diphosphate phosphatase that’s activated in dendritic cells after airway exposure to an aeroallergen. They suggest PLPP6 is likely a targetable regulatory checkpoint for allergic inflammation.
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A collaborative analysis of 31,245 participants in three recent randomized trials suggests residual inflammatory risk is more strongly associated with future cardiovascular events than residual cholesterol risk.
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Healio spoke to Antonia Chen, MD, of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, about surgical outcomes research she presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in Las Vegas.
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Andrew K. Simpson, MD, MBA, MHS, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues created the first machine learning algorithm that identifies who may or may not be a potential candidate for hip or knee arthroplasty based solely on information that could be readily available in the electronic health record.
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Because of the size, shape, and location of the choroid plexus (ChP), it’s difficult to use automated MRI to determine its volume. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers developed the first MRI manual segmentation method for investigating ChP, and they observed significant ChP enlargement in early-course psychosis.
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Regan W. Bergmark, MD, a sinus and endoscopic skull base surgeon, is co-leading a project to advance language-concordant care in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery across the Mass General Brigham system. The team is trialing a mobile app that provides patients and physicians with live video interpretation on demand.
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