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Alice W. Flaherty
GBH News· 9 hours agoDr. Alice Flaherty is a neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School ...
Study: Brain-injured patients who died after life support ended may have recovered
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"Severe traumatic brain injury -- resulting for example...the world," impacting more than 5 million...
Study Suggests Waiting Longer Before Withdrawing Life Support
New York Times· 4 hours agoWhen a patient with a severe traumatic brain injury is comatose, in intensive care, unresponsive and...
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of chile consumption, had a heart defect, autopsy says
KSL Salt Lake City· 1 day agoA Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from...
First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoRichard "Rick" Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March at the age of...
Wegovy users may keep the weight off for 4 years, drug's maker says
CBS News· 2 days agoA new analysis finds that people who use the newest weight loss drugs, specifically Wegovy, may keep...
Could This Strategy Help Fight Memory Decline?
Mercola· 4 days agoTaking a daily multivitamin may improve memory and slow cognitive decline in older adults, according to a third major study on the topic. The studies used data from the COcoa ...
Study reveals patients with brain injuries who died after withdrawal of life support may have...
Science Daily· 4 days agoIn a new study, Mass General Brigham investigators analyzed potential clinical outcomes for TBI patients enrolled in the Transforming Research and Clinical ...
Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren't ended
New Scientist· 21 hours agoAlthough predicting an individual’s outcome can be difficult, some recover and gain at least partial...months later. To learn more about the potential outcomes of such events, Yelena Bodien ...
Leaders leave patients in PE hospital shell game
Becker’s Hospital Review· 1 day agoThe situation is now a shell game for patients, who might have Steward hospitals open and available to them, but with questionable levels of staffing, safety or timely access ...