Massachusetts General Hospital

As hospitals see a surge of RSV patients, doctors in Massachusetts say wait times in emergency departments are nearing historic highs. Dr. Paul Biddinger, the chief preparedness and continuity officer at Mass General Brigham, warns that the staffing shortage in the health care industry is only making the situation worse. “There were recent reports from the Massachusetts Hospital Association of…

Wait times at hospitals’ emergency departments are nearing historic highs amid staffing shortages and a surge in RSV cases.

Pediatricians are warning about high numbers of RSV cases that are hitting hospitals nationwide.

Doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital discuss how they’ve been impacted by the rise in RSV patients this summer and fall and what caused it.

A serious surge in cases of RSV, the common children’s virus, is hampering pediatric hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country, increasing wait times at hospitals and sending administrators scrambling to ensure kids are getting the care they need to get better. The surge, which began in late summer, is intense — Mass General Brigham, the state’s biggest health...

Children’s hospitals across Massachusetts are concerned about capacity as beds fill up with young patients suffering from RSV.

State police say one person is undergoing surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital after being severely injured in a large fight at Shannon Beach in Winchester, Massachusetts on Sunday evening. State police arrested five people involved in the fight, and the injured person in the hospital might also face charges, said police. Police say others were treated at the park for…

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.

Two of Boston’s largest hospitals rank among the top 20 in the entire country, U.S. News and World Report said in its annual Best Hospitals Honor Roll on Tuesday. U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” released Tuesday, ranks the top 20 “Honor Roll” hospitals on a point system, evaluating overall performance at 4,300 hospitals in specific specialties, traditional and...

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.

The first confirmed case of monkeypox in the U.S. this year is in a Boston resident who’s being treated and monitored at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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…

Six Boston-area hospital are joining a national effort to study long COVID, one of the most perplexing aspects of the virus where patients suffer for weeks, months, and even years following their initial infection.

Six Boston-area hospital are joining a national effort to study long COVID, a condition in which patients suffer from symptoms for weeks, months, and even years after initial infection. A recent study estimates there are upwards of 23 million Americans who have experienced long COVID, a catch-all term for roughly 200 symptoms ranging from memory issues, brain fog, fatigue to…

The societal and lifestyle disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may have triggered inflammation in the brain that can affect mental health, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study.

COVID-19 lockdowns may have triggered brain inflammation even in people who didn’t get infecting with the virus, research from Massachusetts General Hospital shows. The societal and lifestyle disruptions caused by the pandemic may have triggered inflammation in the brain that can affect mental health, according to the study. The impacts manifest as symptoms including fatigue, brain fog and mental distress....

The surge in patients at Massachusetts hospitals is leading some to tighten their visitor policies. Mass General Brigham updated its rules Wednesday as the omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads and hospitalizations rise. “We’re trying to limit overcrowding in public spaces and in patient care spaces,” said Dr. Tom Sequist, Mass General Brigham’s chief medical officer. All of the facilities...