For patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer, hair loss is one of the most common—and disruptive—side effects of the drugs, which concurrently impact hair follicle cells while targeting rapidly dividing cancer cells. In fact, it can deter patients from seeking treatment at all.

In emergency departments (EDs) across and beyond Massachusetts, an increase in medically complex patients, presenting with symptoms associated with conditions such as substance use disorder and cancer treatment, are driving a nationwide ED space shortage.

In global regions disrupted by war, poverty, and natural disaster, newborn survival is a challenge, with nearly all of childhood deaths occurring in the first 28 days of life. Preventing those deaths can be as simple as a bubble CPAP, an inexpensive device that delivers critical pressured air into the lungs of a struggling infant.

What does the leopard tortoise—a dome-shelled reptile indigenous to Africa—have to do with diabetes? New research co-authored by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology draws on the unique structure of that animal’s anatomy to inform a potentially groundbreaking way to deliver critical insulin.

A new Partners HealthCare parental leave policy enacted last fall is helping to ease the pressures faced by physicians-in-training who seek to balance the dual—and at times conflicting—goals of career preparation and family.

When a patient presents with a pulmonary embolism (PE)—a dangerous blood clot in the lung that takes more American lives than traffic accidents, HIV, and breast cancer combined—a cross-disciplinary team mobilizes to ensure its safe removal.