However, the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston decided Alexander would be a good candidate for the treatment and had a slot available at the end of April.
The research should also help speed the development of other gene-targeted drugs for cancer, says Haber, senior author on the New England Journal of Medicine paper and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
"This is the first time anyone has shown that a single parkin mutation can lower the age of onset, " said Dr James Gusella, study leader and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Human Genetic Research.
In seeing different specialists, I met one doctor Dr. Steven Zeitels from the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center who is really excited about the potential to improve vocal cord nerve function.
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Warren Zapol, of the Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, along with his colleagues, monitored the vital signs of mice exposed to low-dosages (80 parts per million) of hydrogen sulphide for several hours.
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Russell said he hopes that by the fall, the FDA will give him permission to allow adult diabetic patients to leave the building and walk the grounds of the Massachusetts General Hospital campus accompanied by a nurse, eating as they like and using the hospital's gym.
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In May 2004, Daniel Haber and Thomas Lynch, both of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine showing that the tumors of eight of nine patients who had responded to Iressa had mutations in the genes for the EGFR protein.
Barry is the chief of the general medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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In Boston, a city hit hard by the flu, Massachusetts General Hospital has more than 175 cases of RSV on the record so far this season.
But Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, co-director of the Center for Mental Health and the Media at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, isn't convinced.
Obama also stopped at a high school to thank a group of first responders and volunteers and met with patients recovering from the attacks at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Then there was the senior doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital who noted that his team was prepared for the gruesome injuries they encountered because they received training recently from Israeli doctors experienced with terrorist bombings.
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts and Kings College in London found the mutation by doing detailed sequencing of the genes in several families with an inherited form of ALS. The findings are published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science and were partially funded by the ALS Association.
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Because the devices are relatively inefficient, "the inside of the lungs are exposed to a massive amount of insulin, " says David Nathan, who heads the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Schwamm, vice chairman of the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital, says despite inconclusive results so far, citicoline is a "reasonable" option for stroke patients because clinical trials have showed promise such as improvement in brain scans in some patients.
The surgeon who performed the 45-minute procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Bertram Zarins, said Kerry, the all-but-crowned Democratic presidential nominee, suffered no complications.
Massachusetts General was the top hospital overall, followed by Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, and the Cleveland Clinic.
In a recently announced initiative, Mr. Page will be funding a research program at the Voice Health Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School, led by Dr. Steven Zeitels.
Stuart Harris, chief of the Division of Wilderness Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Ms. Rand, 52, had one leg amputated below the knee and remains hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Siedner is a postdoctoral fellow in the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr Bogoch and his team, which included experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, said the only reason he used an Apple iPhone was because it was his own handset.
The drug's inventor, Randall Lauffer, quit a job as a chemist at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital to develop his idea for the drug.
As it happens, experts from major Israeli hospitals had traveled to Boston and held training sessions at Massachusetts General Hospital prior to the Marathon attack.
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Dr. PETER GOSS (Massachusetts General Hospital): The truth is that between year five and 15 after diagnosis, some 30 percent experience a recurrence of breast cancer.
Lee Kaplan, of Massachusetts General Hospital, stressed that the research in no way proved that consuming fizzy drinks caused gullet cancer - it was just pointing out a possible association.
George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, where many of the wounded were taken, said some had blast wounds "as well as small metallic fragments that entered their body - pellets, shrapnel, nails".
The return of an FDA-cleared treatment is needed, said ACOG spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn't involved in the study of Diclegis.
She reached out to the wife of a college friend who is a pulmonologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who in turn referred Parles to Dr. John Wain, a surgeon there.
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