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GUN WATCH (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Massachusetts bystander shoots madman : "A patient in a psychiatric center near the Massachusetts General Hospital stabbed his doctor this afternoon before being shot dead by an off-duty security guard, police said. The physician is in stable condition, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said at a press conference this afternoon as he described a chaotic scene. A relative...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Boston police met yesterday with security chiefs from the city’s hospitals to discuss ways to make their facilities safer in the wake of several brutal crimes at hospitals in recent weeks. The meeting occurred less than two weeks after a psychiatrist was nearly killed when a patient stabbed her in a medical office at Massachusetts General Hospital and a man...
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Londonderry NH net (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Donald William York, 80, of Derry, NH, died Saturday, November 7, 2009 in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Mr. York was born in Buffalo, NY on April 20, 1929, son of the late Harry William and Gladys (Hewitt) York. He was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY with a degree in [...]
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
( Massachusetts General Hospital ) Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, based at Massachusetts General Hospital. The researchers found structural changes in the brains of former South...
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Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Boston, Massachusetts From the October 27, 2009 Boston Globe : A patient in a psychiatric center near the Massachusetts General Hospital stabbed his doctor this afternoon before being shot dead by an off-duty security guard, police said. The physician is in stable condition, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said at a press conference this afternoon as he described a chaotic...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry. In the November 2009 Archives of General Psychiatry, the researchers report finding...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Study finds brain changes, more severe depression in political detainees experiencing head injuryDepression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of...
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Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It’s Alive! Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in taking embryonic stem cells from mice and growing cardiovascular tissue. The research team, led by Dr. Kenneth Chien, believes that a similar process may one day serve to repair cardiac damage in humans. The work was recently published in the journal Science. [...]
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The husband of the Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist who was stabbed last week in a Boston medical office building has publicly thanked the security guard who fatally shot her assailant, saying the quick action saved her life.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... research teams are being linked at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota; at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle; at the University of Texas in Dallas and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; and at Boston's Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.In addition,...
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Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It’s Alive! Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in taking embryonic stem cells from mice and growing cardiovascular tissue. The research team, led by Dr. Kenneth Chien, believes that a similar process may one day serve to repair cardiac damage in humans. The work was recently published in the journal Science. [...]
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Edge Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Activision has launched a ratings awareness programme designed to educate parents about the Entertainment Software Rating Board's classification system. For the initiative, dubbed Ratings Are Not A Game, the publisher has partnered with Dr. Cheryl Olson, co-director for the Centre for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital. The pair have produced seven videos...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The "grateful" husband of a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor nearly stabbed to death last week on the job reports she "continues to improve every day." ...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Only weeks after two incidents involving Massachusetts General Hospital left one person dead and one seriously injured, a third episode occurred Sunday when a Level 3 sex offender was arrested at the hospital, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.
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Proceedings of the National Academy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada H1T 1C8; bRheumatology Section, Division of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom; cDivision of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-14186 Huddinge, Sweden; dProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, External Projects, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142; eProgram in Translational NeuroPsychiatric...