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...report found that Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital (MGH) would have saved over $54 million in Medicare reimbursements from 2001 to 2005 if it had treated patients with the same level of care as the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. One of Harvard’s other affiliates, Brigham and Women’s, would have saved $38.5 million...
Meanwhile, patients at MGH spent an average of 17 days in the hospital with almost 40 doctor visits, while those at the Mayo Clinic were hospitalized five fewer days and had 16 fewer encounters with physicians...
...definitely have a more aggressive attitude at the end of life than in the rest of the country,” said Thomas H. Lee, Jr. ’75, the network president at Partners HealthCare, the group that owns both MGH and Brigham and Women’s. “There is a culture where people hear of medical advances all the time and may be less inclined to give up,” he said...
...Andrew Billings, the director of palliative care service at MGH, said that he found the Dartmouth study “slightly inflammatory,” adding that it is difficult to make any conclusions about the quality of care based on the data...
Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Mass. General Hospital (MGH) are one step closer to reprogramming adult stem cells and making them capable of creating tissues for all parts of the body without the use of viruses or cancer-causing genes. Harvard Medical School professor Konrad A. Hochedlinger recently discovered how long adult mouse stem cells need to be exposed to reprogramming factors before they convert to a pluripotent, embryonic-like state, at which point they can be potentially used for medical treatments. According to Hochedlinger, his lab set out to unveil the mysteries of the reprogramming...