Massachusetts General Hospital today sued a New York pharmaceutical company it says agreed to pay for the hospital's ALS center to test out a new drug against the currently incurable disease, then tried to worm its way out of its financial commitment after the hospital had already done the work. Read more.
A Boston man with a history of sex crimes dating to 1997 was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail on a variety of charges, including indecent assault and battery, for masturbating during a medical exam he'd requested at a clinic in Chelsea on Friday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports - adding the quick-thinking doctor managed to grab his exam gown and use it as a shield as he was finishing. Read more.
Victor Ambros at UMass Chan Medical School and Gary Ruvkun of Mass. General and Harvard Medical School woke up this morning to learn they'd been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of microRNA: Read more.
A federal judge today sentenced Dr. Gustavo Kinrys of Wellesley to 99 months - 8 1/4 years - in prison for the way he dunned insurers, including Medicare, for millions of dollars for transcranial magnetic stimulation procedures and psychotherapy sessions he never actually conducted. Read more.
A medical assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital took advantage of a doctor leaving a dermatology exam room to get a woman to strip after which he groped her under the guise of examining her foot and leg, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.
A man who lives on the fourth floor of a Martha Road apartment building was arrested today on charges he aimed a green laser pointer at a Coast Guard helicopter whose pilot was trying to land at the neighboring Massachusetts General Hospital last September. Read more.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about a motorcycle madman in the area of Massachusetts General Hospital: Read more.
GBH reports the hospital has modified its "don't even think of asking" policy, but adds immunocompromised Bostonians still worry about going to hospitals in these officially post-pandemic days.
A medical assistant at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, 388 Commonwealth Ave., who was arrested last week on a charge he raped a patient in an exam room was arrested again today for sexually attacking another patient earlier in the month. Read more.
A medical assistant at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, 388 Commonwealth Ave., was arrested yesterday after allegedly raping a patient whom he first told to undress for a test allegedly ordered by a doctor, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent medicine at Mass. General, reports on a recent missive from a doctor in another state and asks for some advice: Read more.
In a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, several doctors at the hospital collaborated to describe the US's first monkeypox case this year, how they diagnosed it, and the way the hospital and the state mobilized to respond to it (note: The report has several photos of the unnamed patient's sores). Read more.
Ben Genaux says he was surprised to see this sign at Mass. General today.
Dr. Stephen Dorner, an emergency-room doctor at Mass. General, posts video taken by an MGH physician's assistant, on her way home after an overnight shift caring for Covid-19 patients, who asked a woman on the Orange Line to pull up her mask.
Of course, it didn't end there: Read more.
Kelly Griffin got one of the letters.
Patients at Mass. General and Brigham and Women's and their community hospitals and physician groups as well as patients at Mass. Eye and Ear and Dana-Farber are eligible to share in an $18.4-million class-action settlement of a claim involving information the health-care providers' Web site may have shared with Facebook and Google - but they have to sign up by Dec. 15. Read more.
A federal judge today rejected a request by more than 260 Mass General Brigham employees to block the hospital network from firing them tomorrow because they don't want to get a Covid-19 shot. Read more.
A group of employees at Mass General Brigham, the state's largest hospital concern, today asked a federal judge to block a requirement that they get vaccinated against Covid-19, saying it violates not just their religious freedom but their rights under federal disabilities law. Read more.
Rendering by NBBJ.
The BPDA board yesterday approved a $2-billion project by Massachusetts General Hospital to replace several current buildings with a new two-wing structure that will add 1 million square feet of clinical and patient-bed space - and leave room for a possible expansion of the Charles/MGH station should the state ever extend the Blue Line down Cambridge Street. Read more.
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