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Research at Massachusetts General Hospital includes multitude of hospital-wide centers, institutes and programs as well as collaborations with other institutions.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors caused changes to immune cells in the cerebrospinal fluid of treated patients and generated promising results in a phase II clinical trial.
Certain antibody functions were delayed in pregnant and lactating women following the first dose. The second vaccine dose was critical to achieving full immunity in pregnant and lactating women.
The placentas of male and female fetuses respond very differently when a mother is infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. Male placentas have significantly increased immune activation, and males receive significantly fewer anti-COVID antibodies from their mothers.
A long history of discrimination against Black women physicians persists and contributes to their underrepresentation in medicine, argue physician-scientist Fatima Cody Stanford and her coauthors.
Increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by 17 minutes per day, adding 54 minutes of walking per day, or reducing 249 minutes of sedentary time per day corresponded to a 5% higher peak oxygen uptake during exercise.
Viral load had no correlation to disease severity in kids, but kids are potential spreaders of current and emerging variants.
