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Great-grandmother Helen's heart transplant gives her more time with the people she loves.

John Previti was in pre-op on the day of his kidney transplant when he mentioned that he hoped his sister Denise D’Amelio would soon have a donor as well. Minutes later, in a twist that surprised everyone, John learned his sister was at the Medical Center to receive her kidney transplant that very day.

Tufts Medical Center’s Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Program brings relief after a lifetime of exhaustion and illness.

Eclipses 2016 milestone of 56 for the region’s most adult heart transplants at a single center, in a calendar year.

In a return visit to the Healthy Podcast, Drs. Abhishek (Sunny) Chatterjee and Salvatore (Sam) Nardello discuss the incredible advances in oncoplastic breast surgery over the past few years.

Sarah Persing, MD, MPH specializes in breast oncology, oncoplastic surgery, microsurgery and general plastic reconstructive surgeries at Tufts Medicine. She performs oncoplastic breast surgery at both Tufts Medical Center and MelroseWakefield Hospital and answers common questions about oncoplastic breast surgery.

When her beloved older sister Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer at just 28, Annie Zitzow Galante knew she had to get serious about cancer screenings. She started her annual mammograms at MelroseWakefield Hospital in her twenties and never missed an exam. By the time Annie received a breast cancer diagnosis at 43, her 21-year-old daughter Laura was eager to begin her own mammograms but was deemed too young for insurance to cover them.

When Iwona Bonney, PhD, was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2022 she took the same deliberative and highly-researched approach to her care that she brings to her work as Clinical Research Coordinator in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine.

DIEP Flap breast reconstruction surgery helps patient reclaim her body after breast cancer.

Read stories of patients injured in the bombing who were cared for at Tufts Medical Center, and a story of one of our nurses who was on Boylston St. when the first bomb went off.

Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine announced today that Jason Hall, MD, a colon and rectal surgeon and an internationally renowned expert in diverticular disease, has been named Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Surgery and Benjamin Andrews Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.

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

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.

Read the story of an employee/patient who was given a second chance at life by her co-workers and her CEO.

MelroseWakefield Hospital is the first in New England to offer Aquablation therapy for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Lowell General is now the only community hospital in the Merrimack Valley that has equipped its surgeons performing minimally invasive procedures with the most advanced robotic surgical system available today – the Da Vinci Xi.

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Lowell General Hospital as one of 89 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019. 

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Lowell General Hospital as one of 89 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019.  As a participant in ACS NSQIP, Lowell General is required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that assesses patient safety and can be used to direct improvement in the quality of surgical care.

New facility will provide high-quality, cost-effective outpatient surgery to local residents

Andras Sandor, MD, FACS, FASMBS, a highly-regarded local general and bariatric surgeon, has joined Tufts Medical Center Community Care and will exclusively perform surgery at MelroseWakefield Hospital and Tufts Medical Center.