Massachusetts General Hospital

Three employees of Massachusetts’ largest health care system have been fired over a “privacy incident” concerning the personal information of patients. Mass General Brigham said in a press release Friday that it learned earlier this year that unauthorized access to some patients’ and policy holders’ information may have been granted. The hospital system said it was notifying certain Massachusetts residents…

A Massachusetts man who received the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday.

Richard Slayman of Weymouth was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after receiving the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant.

A Weymouth man has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after a pig kidney transplant.

A first of its kind surgery happened in Boston. A surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital has performed the world’s very first  genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a Weymouth man. 

Doctors in Boston say they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday it’s the first time a pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously pig kidneys have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Also, two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months. The hospital...

An experimental new treatment for glioblastoma, the kind of brain cancer that killed Sen. John McCain and beloved Boston Celtics executive Heather Walker, dramatically shrank brain tumors in three patients, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study — an early sign it could be an effective treatment.

Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients. The experiments are just first steps but they signal a new strategy to fight hard-to-treat glioblastoma. It’s a twist on the CAR-T therapy already used to treat leukemia, by modifying patients’ own disease-fighting T cells to be better cancer...

A car fire at a hospital parking garage in Waltham, Massachusetts, forced the evacuation of patients and staff on Monday. Firefighters responded just after 11 a.m. to the reported fire in a basement garage at Mass General Waltham. The fire was extinguished, but the hospital had to be evacuated due to concerns about smoke and fumes in the building, according…

Doctors work to make their patients healthier, but one Massachusetts General Hospital emergency room physician is also working to make our democracy healthier. Dr. Alister Martin has seen the link between civic health and physical health first-hand. He looks to make a difference in emergency rooms and neighborhood health centers. Martin’s own personal journey — from being expelled from high…

Even though people in Roxbury live just two miles away from some parts of Back Bay, their life expectancy is 20 years shorter.

A Boston hospital worker accused of sexually assaulting two patients is now facing charges involving additional victims. Damien Knighton, a medical assistant, was arrested in January and charged with the rape and indecent assault of a patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital Back Bay Health Center on Commonwealth Avenue. Days later, he was charged with indecent assault and battery against…

A man armed with a rifle was arrested after a Wednesday incident at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to a police report. Officers with the Boston Police Department responded to an apartment building for a report that a man was experiencing a mental health crisis and carrying a hunting rifle. The man had reportedly called 911 and “stated that he heard…