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Top 5 Habits to Prevent Chronic Disease—and Live Longer

WEBExercising for about 30 minutes a day is proven to help prevent chronic disease. (Photo by stock.adobe.com) In early 2020, researchers from the Brigham and Harvard T.H. Chan …

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A Health Coach For Your Brain Brigham

WEBKnowing the potential of these behaviors, Brigham neurologists Kirk Daffner, MD, and Seth Gale, MD, launched the Brain Health Champion initiative to determine if a health coach …

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Infectious Diseases, Explained Brigham

WEBTo better understand the phenomenon of pandemics, it helps to know what infectious diseases are and how medicines mitigate or eradicate them. “Infectious diseases can …

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Home Brigham Magazine Summer 2023

WEBLeading Without Limits. More than 47% of Brigham clinician-scientists are women, 13 of whom were ranked as the best female scientists in the world in a 2022 Research.com …

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If you could correct common misperceptions of mental illness, …

WEBDepression is one of the most common complications of pregnancy, affecting nearly one in five women in pregnancy and postpartum. Untreated depression can significantly affect …

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All in for 'All of Us' Brigham

WEBCapturing environmental, medical, and genetic data from more than 1 million people, All of Us is creating the world’s largest and most diverse databases for health research in a …

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Healing the Divide Brigham

WEBTom Sequist, MD, MPH, is an internist at the Brigham and the chief medical officer for MGB. Sequist is familiar with the public health consequences of long-term disinvestment in …

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Must Read: Together Brigham

WEBIn this thought-provoking book, the next U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, who served as a hospitalist at the Brigham from 2003 to 2014, links the public health …

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Confronting the Mental Health Toll of Cancer Brigham

WEBFremonta Meyer, MD, is a psychiatrist at the Brigham who specializes in helping cancer patients navigate anxiety, depression, pain, and other issues. In addition to traditional …

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Let’s Talk About Sex (Hormones) Brigham

WEBHumans have more than 50 hormones—chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to tissues and organs and control most of the body’s major systems. The …

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Equity in Motion at the Mobile Clinic Brigham

WEBThe mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic is in full swing. Many visitors are families of teenagers ready to receive their shots before school starts. The feeling on the ground is captured …

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Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA Brigham

WEBRobert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham (Photo by Stu Rosner) Was there an aha moment that …

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Developing Leaders in Health Equity Brigham

WEBWritten By. The 17 internal medicine residents enrolled in the Leadership for Health Equity Pathway are passionate about emphasizing health equity in their careers. Launched in …

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Medicine in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Brigham

WEBArtificial intelligence (AI) makes exchanges like these possible. Physicians, researchers, data scientists, and others at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are engaged in a dazzling …

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Soul Meets Body Brigham

WEB5.1%. of adults younger than 30 are trans or gender diverse, including 2% who are trans men or trans women and 3% who are gender diverse. Source: 2022 Pew Research …

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Crossing the Digital Divide Brigham

WEBSeveral studies from the Brigham have examined this digital divide—the gap between those who have access to technologies and the digital literacy to use them and those who …

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Creating Safe Spaces for Youth Brigham

WEBA decade later, RRH continues providing a contained space for teens of all races and ethnicities to share their perspectives and experiences and learn about the health …

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