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Bob is the fluffiest full-time employee of Tufts Medical Center. The four-year-old Goldendoodle provides comfort and eases anxiety and stress for our hospital patients, families and employees.

Those who enter Tufts Medical Center’s Emergency Department (ED) will find the once blank, pale walls now graced with serene, framed images of sea- and landscapes from across New England, courtesy of Emory Petrack, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Tufts Medical Center.

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.

Rachel J. Buchsbaum, MD, Director of the Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center and Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, is pleased to announce that Dominique Michaud, ScD, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Jennifer M. Bjercke Scholar Award for Breast Cancer Research.

MIRI PI Dr. Michael House mentored Dr. Jean Hostage, who received the Best Maternal Fetal Medicine Presentation To a Person in Training award.

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The vascular system, also known as the circulatory system, is comprised of arteries, veins and vessels that carry blood throughout the body.

Do you need vein treatment?

Innovative reconstructive surgery restores quality of life.

A physician with a special name shares her family history and her passion for medicine.

Fernanda Alvarado, PhD, MIRI post-doc, completes CTSI Blue Star Investigator Certificate Program.

Dr. Patrick Catalano, who has expertise in lifestyle interventions to reduce gestational weight gain among women with overweight or obesity, was an author in the paper “A telehealth lifestyle intervention to reduce excess gestational weight gain in pregnant women with overweight or obesity (GLOW): a randomised, parallel-group, controlled.”

Dr. Erika Werner becomes an Associate Member of MIRI.

When Frank Basler, 58, and his son were in Killington, VT at a bachelor party in March 2020 their only concern was having a good time. The expectant grandfather was enjoying spending time with his son and their friends in the mountains of Vermont. Nine days later, Frank was on a ventilator fighting to breathe.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men and also the most common non-skin cancer among all Americans.

Anthony is looking forward to going to the beach.

Nichole Casper, RN, a nurse in the Mother Infant Unit (MIU) reported to work as usual on August 21, 2021. As she read the list of patients there that day, one name stood out to her: Jacqui Webb.

For his entire life, Anthony D’Allesandro Vivolo has dreaded going to the beach.