Truth, Lies, or Marketing?
How health misinformation circulates in the age of social media and how you can protect yourself and combat its spread.
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Fall 2024
Ladders to Health
Brigham patients and experts share their science-backed steps for sustainable health and well-being.
Greater Expectations
Vaccines have helped double lifespans in many nations over the past 200 years. Learn how to counter misinformation around vaccines.
Finding True North
Improving tools and eliminating obstacles provides everyone with better paths to the right care.
‘The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually’
Misinformation makes it more challenging than ever to get or provide the right care at the right time.
‘I Was Very Lucky’
Bonnie Slater-Demont suffered a stroke in the middle of the night. From the moment they reached the Brigham, Bonnie and her husband, Richard, trusted she would receive excellent care—and are so grateful that she did.
Driving Better Health
Mass General Brigham’s mobile medical Community Care Vans deliver a broad menu of mobile medical services.
In Case of Emergency
In this video series, emergency medicine physicians from the Brigham and Mass General Brigham give helpful info and advice for getting through the unexpected.
Sleep Myths, Debunked
Rebecca Robbins, MD, talks with the “Today” show about sleep myths and tips for getting better rest.
Behind the Scenes with MGB Cancer Leaders
Experts collaborate, share insights, and build momentum toward the future of cancer care at Mass General Brigham.
Doulas Enhance Pregnancy Outcomes
Birth doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support to expectant parents along the journey.
Did You Know? Skin Cancer Edition
Abigail Waldman, MD, FAAD, appears on the Brigham’s Instagram to discuss three skin cancer facts people may not know.
If you could eliminate one persistent health myth, what would it be?
We asked thought leaders across the Brigham to share their insights and experiences.
Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA
On servant leadership, opportunity, and unlikely heroes
New Ingestible Device Could Be Used to Detect Sleep Apnea
The pill-like device could transform how life-threatening events are monitored and prevented.
Home Hospital Expands Access
Mass General Brigham Home Hospital delivers care to eligible patients who would otherwise need to be hospitalized.
Summer 2023
Sources: Let’s Talk About Sex (Hormones)
A Future Encompassing All of Us
Being inclusive of all people is necessary for delivery high-quality, equitable care, and can save lives.
Sex & Gender Glossary
This gender-inclusive glossary includes some essential terms and definitions for understanding sex, gender, and well-being.
Women ≠ Tiny Men
For decades, medical research focused almost exclusively on men. Brigham physician-researchers are working to balance the scales for women’s health.
Pro-Care. Pro-Patient.
Building on its 50-year legacy, the Brigham’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is working toward reproductive justice for all patients.
Soul Meets Body
The Brigham’s Center for Transgender Health is breaking barriers and providing state-of-the-art, life-changing care for trans and gender diverse people.
Let’s Talk About Sex (Hormones)
How do sex hormones fluctuate through the years? This gender-inclusive infographic timeline explores the links between sex hormones and health.
What sex or gender differences in health have you seen in your work but weren’t taught?
We asked thought leaders across the Brigham to share their insights and experiences.
Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, MPH
On sex, gender, and the wilderness of the scientific process.
Shifting Sex Differences in COVID-19
Scientists are uncovering why women are more likely than men to experience long COVID symptoms.
Leading Without Limits
More than 47% of Brigham clinician-scientists are women, 13 of whom were ranked as the best female scientists in the world in a 2022 Research.com survey.
Brigham Scientists Developing a Brain Cancer Vaccine
A research team is using a new cell therapy approach to eliminate tumors and train the immune system to prevent cancers from recurring.
Neurology Care with Women in Mind
The Brigham is leading research and care to better understand and treat brain diseases in women.
Blazing New Trails—Together
Forging the road toward a more inclusive healthcare system is a vital commitment we must make.
The Man, the Myth
Shalender Bhasin, MD, examines facts and myths surrounding male body image disorders and related anabolic steroid use.
Beware of Sleep Misinformation on Social Media
Brigham researchers are shedding light on an alarming amount of sleep misinformation online.
Winter 2022
Healing in Action
Hear from young people in the Racial Recognition and Healing Project as they navigate structural racism, advantage, and social change.
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA
The Brigham’s first Black president reflects on resilience and equity.
Belonging Boosts Resiliency
Brigham leaders discuss how feelings of belonging can boost resiliency and well-being, especially in the workplace.
Finding Her Voice
Chief Resident Anita Chary, MD, PhD, shares her perspective as an emerging medical leader.
The Winding Path Toward Racial Equity
“The past isn’t dead.
All in for ‘All of Us’
Making genomic research more equitable
Crossing the Digital Divide
Brigham researchers lay the groundwork for equity in telehealth.
Rethinking Prison and Public Health
Brigham experts discuss how incarceration affects the health of individuals and communities.
Compassion Through Crisis
As a humanitarian crisis unfolded in Afghanistan last summer, neurosurgeon Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD, shared his family’s story and how it shapes his surgical practice today.
A Mindful Meditation
Enjoy this calming tour through the human brain, thanks to the Brigham’s advanced brain circuit imaging technology.
How to Stay in Conversations About Racism
Joel T. Katz, MD, shares insights for engaging in dialogues about racism.
Uniting for Justice and Health Equity
A vigil for Black lives at the Brigham in 2020 drew hundreds in the community to reflect on racial injustice and spark change.
Skincare Across the Spectrum
The Skin of Color Dermatology Program pays special attention to the skincare needs of patients of color.
Resources for Learning and Growth
Check out our editors' recommended resources for learning more about racial justice in medicine and society.
Bad Ideas from Great Minds
Historically revered thinkers spread false claims that racial differences reflect different biology, genetics, and even character.
How Bias Persists
Racially biased findings have permeated clinical research, even in recent decades.
Winter 2021
The Promise of Preventive Genomics
Watch CNBC’s interview with Robert Green, MD, MPH, about the Brigham’s Preventive Genomics Clinic.
The Science of Stopping COVID-19
How Brigham infectious diseases experts led research to prevent, diagnose, and treat COVID-19.
Erasing Immunity
Brigham researchers explain why the measles vaccine is more important than we knew.
Nawal Nour, MD, MPH
The Brigham’s first Black department chair reflects on her life’s journeys and passions.
Advancements in Prevention
Hope Works Here
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the Brigham community, and the world, like never before.
Containing Contagion
Stopping the spread of disease, misinformation, and science resistance
Top 5 Habits to Prevent Chronic Disease—and Live Longer
Three decades of data suggests following four or five healthy habits is linked to nearly 10 more years free of chronic disease.
Focusing on Disparities
Ensuring diversity in COVID-19 vaccine trials means engaging people where they live, work, and socialize, and giving back to the community.
Infectious Diseases, Explained
A closer look at infectious diseases and how medicines tackle them.
SIFTing for Facts in an Infodemic
Misinformation can be powerful and destructive, but simple tools can help people separate fact from fiction.
Paths to Better Health
The life-changing effects of small steps—and a buddy system.
The Future Is in Our Hands
In the toughest times, the Brigham has always been a community of helpers and healers.
Don’t delay preventive health screenings
The six essential preventive health screenings to keep up with during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Health Coach For Your Brain
The Brain Health Champion initiative helps patients protect their cognitive health through nutrition, exercise, and other activities.
What have you seen or learned during the pandemic that will stay with you?
Brigham clinicians and scientists reflect on unforgettable moments and lessons they learned this year.
Fall 2019
Make Mental Health Part of Your Annual Checkup
Physician Katherine Rose, MD, offers tips for talking about mental health with your primary care doctor.
Tales from the Crypt
Mummies scanned at the Brigham reveal clues about heart disease.
Zara Cooper, MD
On her unique perspective from the intersection of trauma, surgery, and palliative care.
Your Diet Could Help Fight Depression
In addition to protecting against heart disease, the Mediterranean diet may have benefits for preventing depression.
Texting Behind the Wheel
Parents often text and drive, according to new research from the Brigham.
Turning Grief into Hope
When gun violence changed Yoselín Rodríguez’s life forever, support from her loved ones and community helped her find strength, healing, and courage.
Game Changer
Medical gaming is an example of new and innovative ways to support patients struggling with addiction.
Student-Athlete Opioid Education
Student-athlete Alex White and Brigham experts discuss the importance of education in managing pain after injury to ensure the best outcomes.
Little Hats, Big Hearts
To raise awareness for congenital heart disease, Brigham staff, nurses, and doctors made 500 red hats for their newborn patients.
Texting and Driving
Regan Bergmark, MD, discusses her distracted driving research in this Boston 25 News interview.
A Changing Climate for Health
Is climate change making people sicker? Multi-disciplinary experts, convened by the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explore this question together.
Entitled to Hope
Ancient history and literature often illuminate modern times.
A New Leap
Brigham surgeons and scientists are expanding options for patients in need of an organ donation.
Audio Stories
Featuring the latest science and advice from the Brigham's experts, this audio series explores buzzworthy topics for healthy living.
Scanning for Clues
Get a closer look as the imaging team studies 16th-century mummies for historic health insights.
If you could correct common misperceptions of mental illness, what would you say?
Our experts debunk myths in mental health care.
Winter 2019
The Science of Addiction
A podcast about the origins of the opioid crisis and the science of pain.
Perspectives on the Opioid Crisis
A podcast about what the medical community is doing to address the opioid epidemic.
Grappling with the Opioid Crisis
One person's treatment is another's threat of addiction. The Brigham community takes on the opioid crisis.
Discovering Causes of Hearing Loss
After their infant son lost hearing, medical researchers Sharon and Gary Curhan were determined to improve care for hearing disorders.
Battling the Opioid Crisis
Healthcare thought leaders Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, and Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, discuss the path forward through the opioid crisis.
Bringing Evidence to Prescribing Conversations
These Brigham-based health educators cross the country to help physicians make better prescribing choices.
Connecting the Dots
Nurses’ Health Study uncovers clues to improve health
Great RxPectations
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Medicine in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Revolutionizing how doctors predict, find, treat, and prevent disease
Special Delivery
Watch as the newborn MRI system arrives by crane to be installed in its new home in the NICU.
Vetting Vitamin D
Our nutrition experts explain how much of this popular dietary supplement is too much.
A Place of Hope and Healing
Christine King shares how her surgery at the Brigham to remove her brain tumor changed her life.
Training the Next Generation
The Student Success Jobs Program marks its 18th year at the Brigham.
Star Treatment
A special visitor made a heart transplant patient’s day.
More Than Words
How the Laham family counted on the Brigham’s NICU nurses.
Mapping the Mind
Learn how Brigham neurosurgeon Alexandra Golby, MD creates maps of patients’ brains.
Summer 2018
One Giant Leap for Space Medicine
Astronauts train in the STRATUS Center to prepare for medical emergencies in space.
Printing Artificial Tissues and Organs
The lab of Yu Shrike Zhang, PhD, is developing organs-on-a-chip systems to model human organs at the microscale and test new drugs.
Repairing Cartilage Damage More Quickly
Shuichi Mizuno, PhD, created a new technology to rapidly grow new cartilage cells for people with joint damage.
Creating a Simple At-Home Test for Male Fertility
Bioengineers including Hadi Shafiee, PhD, developed a smartphone-based screening for male fertility.
Building Better Apps for Better Care
The Brigham iHub is helping researchers design promising new digital health tools.
Pocket Docs
The human touch of healthcare’s digital revolution
Talking Genes
Hear how doctors like Robert Green, MD, MPH, help people understand results of home genetic testing.
A Matter of Time
Researchers have found a way to deliver HIV therapy with just one weekly pill.
Tomorrow’s Medicine Today
Faced with daunting medical challenges, bioengineers build instruments of hope for patients in need.
Mapping the Micro-brain-ome
Laurie Cox, PhD, shares connections researchers are discovering between the gut and the brain.
Machine Learning
Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, explains how artificial intelligence will transform healthcare.
Closer Look
Pursuing deeper insights into human health
In Good Hands
Mom Sedina Amuzu describes her emotional journey with her daughter, Brianna, who received care in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit after weighing under two pounds at birth.
Sweet Deal
Scientists are discovering the disease-fighting benefits of cocoa.
Sleeper Effect
Staying asleep can be harder as the years go by. Charles Czeisler, PhD, MD, and Elizabeth Klerman, MD, PhD, explain why.
Manuel’s Story
When teenager Manuel Sanchez Paniagua’s lung cancer began to spread, his radiation oncologists worked quickly to find him the right treatment in time.
Summer 2017
A new frontier for immunotherapies
Cynthia Lemere, PhD, is investigating whether Alzheimer’s disease can be prevented, delayed, or slowed by immunotherapy.
Inside Job
For patients with aggressive cancers and neurologic diseases, immunotherapies offer a new path forward.
Cracking the Genetics of Cardiovascular Disorders
Learn how BWH is speeding critical information and treatments to patients at risk for inheriting cardiovascular disorders.
Meet Stephen J. Elledge, PhD
Elledge and his colleagues discuss his work and contributions to science.
Making Medicine Personal
Lauren Stetson discusses her participation in the BabySeq Project with primary investigator Robert Green, MD, MPH.
Who Should Take Vitamin Supplements?
Learn more about the latest recommendations from JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH.
Bringing the Hospital Home
David M. Levine, MD, describes his pilot project to safely bring hospital services to patients in their homes.
The Science of Inflammation
Meet researchers who are finding new avenues to precisely control inflammation.
Can Stem Cells Repair Cartilage?
Andreas Gomoll, MD, shares new advances in joint preservation.
A New Way Forward
War veteran Brandon Korona successfully undergoes a new experimental amputation.
A Thankful Heart
Heart transplant recipient Brian Wade meets the family of his donor.
Will’s Journey
Learn more about how Will Lautzenheiser’s double arm transplant has changed his life.
The Rise of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Go inside the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases to see how its leaders are tackling inflammation underlying many diseases.
Meet Win Thurber
Hear how BWH helped him overcome a severe drug allergy.
Journey into Immunity
With immune-related issues of the rise, it’s timely and timeless to devote this issue to the immune system.
Living the Questions
Betsy Nabel, MD, shares her optimism for the future of medical problem solving and innovation.
Winter 2016/17
Retreat & Refresh Stroke Camp
Hear some members of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s Stroke Support Group talk about their worry-free weekend at the camp.
New Building Opens on BWH Campus
Meet three patients who are already benefiting from the innovation and collaboration housed in this state-of-the-art facility.
White House Frontiers Conference
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, moderates a panel with President Barack Obama and healthcare innovators at the Conference.
Can You Defy Your Age?
Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of preventive cardiology at BWH, shares stories.
Read Early and Often
The Brigham Baby Academy encourages parents to read to their babies early and often.
More Tools to Bust Heart Disease Risk
New research from BWH hints certain interventions may be equally or more effective than statin medications for cholesterol.
Mapping the Brain’s White Matter
Colored 3D diffusion imaging—using MRI technology and computer analysis—maps the brain’s white matter tracts, or fibers.
Impact of Sleep on Health
Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian disorders, discusses the consequences of sleep deprivation
Sleepless, West to East
A six-hour flight from Boston to London can cause worse jet lag than flying nearly the same distance from Boston to Los Angeles.
Keep Moving This Winter
Waking up on a chilly winter morning seems to aggravate chronic joint pain associated with arthritis.
Transforming Medicine
Betsy Nabel, MD, reflects on the opening of the Building for Transformative Medicine.
The World’s Emergency Room
BWH’s chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine describes dangerous conditions faced by MDs, nurses, and humanitarian workers.
Blood Draws Without the Sting
400 million blood draws are performed each year in the U.S.
A Glimpse Inside
Learn more about the Building for Transformative Medicine, one of the most advanced patient care and research facilities in USA.
Blink of an Eye
Radiologists can identify an abnormal mammogram in half a second, according to a recent Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) study.
Heavy Metal
Big Iron moves into the Building for Transformative Medicine.