Massachusetts General Hospital

USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA

2013-05-10 05:00:00

In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...

Boston prays, plays and remembers on a Sunday of renewal

2013-04-21 08:29:00

BOSTON -- After citywide demonstrations of resilience on Saturday, Boston will pause Sunday in prayer as it ends a week of shock, grief and anxiety that began Monday with the marathon bombings. “I don't know that we'll ever be quite the same,&...

Police: 1 Boston bombing suspect dead, the other at large

2013-04-19 01:51:00

WATERTOWN, Mass. -- One suspect linked to the Boston Marathon bombings is dead, and the second is on the loose, armed and dangerous, police said early Friday. Officers were going door to door in the Boston suburb of Watertown. They warned residents to...

A gap-toothed little boy, a sunny woman: Victims in Boston

2013-04-16 17:45:00

BOSTON -- Eight-year-old Martin Richard was a bright, sunny boy who loved to ride his bike and went “wild” when he played offense on his soccer team, scoring the winning goal in a championship game last year. Krystle Campbell was the...

FBI seeks public's help identifying Boston suspects

2013-04-18 19:41:00

BOSTON — The FBI appealed for the public's help Thursday in identifying two men wearing baseball caps and backpacks, one of whom was seen placing a backpack at the site of the second Boston Marathon bombing. As President Obama traveled to the...

MIT police officer reported shot near campus

2013-04-18 20:48:00

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Massachussetts Institute of Technology�police officer was reported shot on or near campus�Thursday evening, according to local media and scanner reports. MIT police could not immediately be reached for comment. An official with the...

MIT officer dies after campus shooting

2013-04-18 21:59:00

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer died after a �shooting on campus, Cambridge Police said Thursday night. The officer was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. There was a heavy...

Bioengineered rat kidney could lead to treatments for people

2013-04-14 11:15:00

A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has engineered functional rat kidneys by stripping donor kidneys of their cells and then repopulating the remaining collagen substructures with new cells. The bioengineered kidneys produced...

Many Boston victims require limb amputations

2013-04-17 16:42:00

It may have lacked the dust and dirt of battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Monday's bomb attack on the Boston Marathon produced a number of injuries rarely seen outside of war zones — traumatic limb amputations. Medicine has made great...

FBI examines shrapnel from Boston bombs as nation mourns

2013-04-16 16:58:00

BOSTON -- A day after bombs tore through the Boston Marathon, the nation mourned the dead and injured as officials examined shrapnel and debris for clues. There were no suspects or claims of responsibility, but details began to emerge about the bombs...

Boston hospitals well prepared for blast casualties

2013-04-16 23:18:00

BOSTON — As 3 o'clock neared Monday afternoon, officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital, one of Boston's premier medical centers, expected this year's marathon would be a nonevent. "We were winding down," said Barry Wante, the hospital's...

Boston bombing victims Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell mourned

2013-04-16 23:13:00

BOSTON — Martin Richard was a bright, sunny 8-year-old who loved to ride his bike and scored the winning goal for his soccer team in a championship game last year. Krystle Campbell, 29, was the vivacious assistant manager of a steakhouse who could...

First lady Michelle Obama, right, visits with Aaron Hern, lower left, his parents Alan and Katherine, and sister Abby, all of Martinez, Calif., at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Dr. George Velhamos, a leader of the trauma surgery team at Massachusetts General Hospital, meets with reporters in Boston.

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Anesthesia is administered to a surgical patient at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston says it has had been able to use EEGs to identify signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness under the anesthesia drug propofol.

2013-03-04 00:00:00