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Conventional CPR, which combines rescue breathing with chest compressions, has been the primary treatment for cardiac arrest for nearly 60 years. Survival, however, remains frustratingly low. Brigham and Women’s Hospital is part of a collaborative effort to explore a promising new alternative: extracorporeal…
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Each year, U.S. News and World Report conducts an annual expert opinion survey ranking the top hospitals in the nation. Board-certified specialists and active Doximity members are eligible to vote in the survey.
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In October, The New England Journal of Medicine published a case vignette focusing on a 61-year-old man with prostate cancer. Two physicians—Anthony Victor D’Amico, MD, PhD, chief of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center, and Freddie Hamdy, FRCS(Urol.), FMedSci, of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford—present evidence on the appropriate clinical care approach. NEJM readers can cast their vote on which direction they would take based on the two essays. Read More
Because of the size, shape, and location of the choroid plexus (ChP), it’s difficult to use automated MRI to determine its volume. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers developed the first MRI manual segmentation method for investigating ChP, and they observed significant ChP enlargement in early-course psychosis.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed two promising AAV9 variants that are much more effective than the parent vector for delivering therapeutic transgenes into the central nervous system of mice and macaques.
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