Surgeon-in-Chief Named Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery
Boston) – Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH, has been named Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery, effective January 1, 2018. read more
View ArticleHousing Instability Negatively Affects the Health of Children and Caregivers
Boston) – Jan. 22, 2018 – When families don’t have stable housing, their risk of struggling with poor health outcomes and material hardships, such as food insecurity, increases, according to a new...
View ArticleStigma, Social Media, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Potential...
Boston) - It’s not news gastroenterologists want to hear. In one of the first analyses of its kind on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), researchers at Boston Medical Center and Boston University found...
View ArticleBMC Can Help You Do Your Taxes!
Do you know that you may qualify for tax credits and benefits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)? For the third year in a row, BMC has banded together with the Boston Tax Help Coalition to...
View ArticleA New Strategy to Address the Opioid Epidemic: Collaborations between Public...
Boston) - A new study shows that public health and public safety agencies established local, collaborative programs in Massachusetts to connect overdose survivors and their personal networks with...
View ArticleExpanding Hepatitis C Testing to All Adults Is Cost-Effective and Improves...
Boston) – According to a new study, screening all adults for hepatitis C (HCV) is a cost-effective way to improve clinical outcomes of HCV and identify more infected people compared to current...
View ArticleNeonatal Abstinence Syndrome Review: Additional Research Needed to Develop...
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Review: Additional Research Needed to Develop Optimal Assessment, Treatment Standards read more
View ArticlePatients with Medicaid Have Limited Access to Physical Therapy in...
Boston) - Patients with Medicaid in Massachusetts have limited access to reimbursable physical therapy (PT) after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery, according to a new study....
View ArticleResearchers Optimize Lung Stem Cell Engineering Process
Published in Stem Cell Reports , CReM researchers detailed their use of single cell RNA sequencing, a state-of-the-art technique they employed to generate the most comprehensive profile to date of air...
View ArticleBoston Medical Center Leads Study on Peer Recovery Coaches for Opioid Use...
Boston) - Boston Medical Center (BMC)’s Grayken Center for Addiction is leading a study on the impact of peer recovery coaches on patients with substance use disorder (SUD), including focusing on...
View ArticleNon-Pharmacologic Approaches Improve Outcomes for Infants with Neonatal...
Boston) – A quality improvement (QI) initiative at Boston Medical Center that focused on using non-pharmacologic approaches to care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) yielded positive...
View ArticleMarketing to Physicians by Opioid Pharma Companies Leads to More Opioid...
Researchers from Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction examined pharmaceutical payments from 2014, ranging from consulting fees to meals, and found that doctors who received any opioid...
View ArticleBMC to Test Childhood Anxiety Therapy Treatment with $13.5M Funding
Boston) - Boston Medical Center has been approved for a $13.5 million award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to test the efficacy of two different methods of delivering...
View ArticleStronger Alcohol Policies Help Reduce Alcohol-Related Crash Deaths in U.S.
Boston) – Stronger alcohol policies, including those targeting both excessive drinking and driving while impaired by alcohol, reduce the likelihood of alcohol-related motor vehicle crash deaths,...
View ArticleGrayken Center for Addiction, Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Announce New...
The Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, the nation’s leading nonprofit dedicated to helping families whose son or daughter is struggling...
View ArticleJulianne Riley - Patient Story
Julianne Riley is a vibrant kindergarten teacher who enjoys hiking with her husband, traveling, and walking her dog, Marty. Activities she took for granted, Julianne?s health was put to the test when...
View ArticleMethadone and Buprenorphine Decrease Mortality After Nonfatal Overdose
Boston – A new study out of Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction on opioid overdose survivors indicates that two FDA approved medications to treat opioid use disorder save lives, but...
View ArticleMethadone Should Get a Home in Primary Care
Boston) - Physicians and public health officials are calling on Congress to update the laws that regulate methadone prescribing to help reduce barriers to a treatment proven to be effective for opioid...
View ArticleBoston Medical Center, John Hancock Celebrate $5M Raised Through Boston...
To commemorate the milestone, the institutions will unveil a 40-foot mural at the hospital depicting Team BMC runners on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 11:15 a.m.read more
View ArticleBMCs Nonpharmacologic Approach to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Wins 2018 Gage...
The award is presented annually in recognition of a hospital’s activities to improve the quality of care delivered or that eliminate harmful events for individuals or groups of patients.read more
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