Word: mgh
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...Specialized Center of Research on Ischemic Heart Disease, located in the Massachusetts General (MGH) and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals, studies heart disease caused by narrowing of the arteries that provide blood to the heart, Dr. W. Gerald Austen, Churchill Professor of Medicine and co-principal investigator, said yesterday...
...grant is a continuation of programs funded at MGH for the past five years, and Dr. Edgar Haber, chief of the cardiac unit at the hospital said yesterday he hopes the additional money and the new researchers from Brigham Hospital will lead to "a better understanding of coronary disease and how we can help coronary patients...
Copland said the MGH decision would discourage smaller institutions from performing the operation, which costs about...
...Board's decision, based primarily on how much hospital time, money and equipment the operations require, followed ten months of debate over a proposal by MGH's medical leadership to perform six transplants each year. The MGH chief of surgery, Dr., W. Gerald Austen, refused to comment on the decision...
...Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard and originally a proponent of transplants at MGH, said yesterday he and most of the other surgeons uphold the board's decision. "Much more research on its therapeutic effectiveness and cost efficiency needs to be done," he added...