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The most pressing health issues across Greater Lowell include mental health, chronic health and wellness and substance use, according to the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).

MIRI PI Patrick Catalano, MD, has been awarded an R21 from the NIH/NICHD as Multi-Site PI for a two-year study entitled, “Impact of a Postpartum Lifestyle Intervention on Lactation Outcomes, Breastmilk Composition and Infant Growth.”

For years, glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, has frustrated scientists and researchers. But while there is no known cure for this deadly disease, new, cutting-edge research may provide a life-prolonging option for glioblastoma patients and their families.

As most American parents already know, cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common illness of childhood, are surging this year.

Top Boston doctors debate whether students should mask up after a study found that mandates cut COVID cases in Boston-Area schools, plus talk about flu and RSV during NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q+A” series.

Tufts Medical Center completed the first Bionic Eye Implant in New England. Christine now has some light back in her previously dark life. Learn more.

Tufts Medical Center patient, triathlete overcomes brain aneurysm to complete Ironman competition.

Jody White to remain CEO.

When it came time for her annual mammogram this year, Diane MacLean remembers thinking she might put it off.

Lowell General Hospital’s main and Saints campuses along with Merrimack Valley Cardiology located in North Chelmsford have been granted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in the area of Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography.

Sixty-year-old Mary D. of Winthrop recalls waking up one morning two years ago over the New Year’s holiday and immediately realizing something wasn’t right. “My face felt a little funny,” she says. “I was putting on makeup and couldn’t close my eye correctly. By the end of the day, it was much worse.”

Gerry Ferretti, of Chelmsford, eats well and teaches exercise classes, but for years she struggled to reach her weight goals and wrestled with stomach issues.

The new high-tech CSICU opened Wednesday, May 11 to address a significant shortage of adult critical care capacity.

Lowell General Hospital recently went live with a new state-of-the art camera system in the Special Care Nursery (NICU unit).

Luis was born with a craniofacial abnormality, but his twin was not. A year later, thanks to Tufts Medical Center, Luis and his twin now look identical.

Read the testimonial of a patient who traveled from Portugal to get exceptional care from the pediatric ENT team at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

MIRI researchers are now able to identify genes affecting abnormal feeding habits in newborns who were prenatally exposed to opioids.

Eight-week-old Abegael spent six long weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston battling respiratory failure due to RSV.

The Lowell Sun recently released its 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards issue. The Sun ballot is housed on its website LowellSun.com for locals to vote for their favorites within Lowell and surrounding communities. Categories cover a wide range of services and voting lasted for two to three weeks. First-place winners were featured in the special section in late June.

Maureen Ducharme knew that she couldn't put off the procedure any longer. In 2009, Ducharme, 55, from Springfield, suffered two strokes within a couple of weeks.