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A woman who went into labor just before a Pink concert at Fenway Park ended up walking to the hospital to give birth last week. Angela Mercer’s new baby boy is healthy and her family is overjoyed, despite having missed the show they came to Boston to see, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Mercer walked from Fenway....

If you ask most people, getting younger instead of older probably sounds pretty appealing. While there’s nothing you can do about your chronological age — the number of years you’ve been alive — scientists in Boston are studying factors that can change your biological age. A recent study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that physiological stress — stress on...

In an international study, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes could also benefit a wide range of patients with heart failure. A large-scale clinical trial showed that the drug dapagliflozin reduced the risk of a cardiovascular death, or worsening heart failure, regardless of ejection fraction. Ejection fraction is a…

Local researchers have discovered that a diabetes drug can help with heart failure.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has waned, doctors are seeing an increase in other illness. “Demand is intense right now,” said Dr. Kevin Ard of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Sexual Health Clinic. “We’re receiving hundreds of calls a day.” As monkeypox cases have spread, Massachusetts has made the vaccine available at specific locations, including Ard’s clinic. “I’m concerned that it will...

With the COVID-19 pandemic starting to wane, the already-strapped medical system is dealing with rises in other illnesses.

Researchers in Boston say they may have made a big step forward in how to identify and diagnose long COVID, the sometimes debilitating condition that some people infected with the virus develop.

Doctors may soon be able to detect long COVID in patients through a blood test.

A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely-born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was delivered has sued one of Boston’s most prestigious hospitals for losing the infant’s body, denying the parents the opportunity to hold a proper funeral and burial. The lawsuit filed Thursday says that baby Everleigh’s body was inadvertently thrown away by a Brigham and Women’s...

The HeartBrothers Foundation works to change the statistics that show some minority groups, especially Black people, experience heart disease at higher rates than other populations.

Heart disease hits Black people at a higher rate than almost any other group in America, but it’s a problem that doesn’t need to exist, and a local group is working to change the statistics. For Kyree Miller, the fight to help communities of color improve their heart health is very personal. He knows what it feels like to...

Massachusetts has battled through several surges of COVID-19 over the past several years as viral mutations changed infection rates. Two of the biggest, caused by the delta and omicron variants of COVID, are the subject of a new study from researchers in Boston. It found a higher number of excess deaths in Massachusetts during the omicron surge than the delta…

Top Boston doctors explain why some people living in the same household get COVID while others don’t, how BA2.12 is taking over as the dominant strain and why the virus is developing a resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir during NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “COVID Q&A.”

FDA warns Brigham of ‘significant violations’ at PET drugmaking site

The system that includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has withdrawn its controversial plan to build outpatient care centers in Woburn and Westborough and to expand a facility in Westwood after learning Department of Public Health staff would not recommend the projects’ approval.

Mass General Brigham officials said Friday the hospital system has withdrawn its controversial proposal to build outpatient care centers in Woburn and Westborough and to expand an existing facility in Westwood after learning Department of Public Health staff would not recommend approval of the projects. The DPH did, however, recommend that the Public Health Council, with conditions, partially approve a…