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Findings may lead to the development of therapies to prevent damage to the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. Boston, Mass. — Chemical eye burns caused by alkali agents not only injure the front of the eye — the cornea, where the contact takes place — but also cause...

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Dr. Mahmood and the team successfully conducted the last session, until August 2017, of our Interactive Hands-On 3D TEE Workshop on 11-12 March, 2017 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. As the only hands-on 3D imaging workshop in the country, this course has provided opportunities for...

Congratulations to Maria Saraf for being selected to present her research titled, “Decreased Myocardial Recovery Due To Oxidative Stress in Diabetics: Alterations in MAPK Pathway and PGC-1α” at the Research Assistant Learning Initiative (RALI) Mini-Grand Rounds at BIDMC. Keep up the good work!

Alexander Woltersom gave a Junior Session Oral Presentation on the research project titled: “Another Approach to Analyze the Dynamics of the Tricuspid Valve Annulus” at the 35 th Annual International Symposium: Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery and Perioperative Medicine Meeting held...

Congratulations to the Valve Research Team for presenting their research at the 6th annual HMS Surgery Research Day. Special shoutout to Maria Saraf for being one of 16 people who had podium presentations and for receiving the 'Excellence in Surgery Research' award! The rest of the team presented...

Survival of mass extinctions helps to explain near indestructible properties of hospital "superbugs" Boston, Mass. — Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well...

Dr. Richard Cummings was featured in an article in the Spring/Summer 2017 Volume 7, No. 1 of the Inside Surgery Newsletter. The article appears on page 19 of the issue, and is titled "Using Glycobiology to Stop Inflammation".

A phase I/II clinical trial at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that some patients taking high doses of atorvastatin (cholesterol-lowering medication) had complete resolution of lipid deposits in the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the...

Joan W. Miller, MD, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was appointed Treasurer of The Macula Society as of February 27, 2016. Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized expert on retinal disorders...