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ALL OF US know that accessing basic health care and emergency medical care treatment is essential to taking care of ourselves and our families. This November, voters will have a unique opportunity to uphold a Massachusetts state law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public...

HMS students, faculty and staff gathered in the TMEC Atrium on Nov. 1 to stand in solidarity with intersex, trans and gender-diverse friends, families and patients. The demonstration was part of a national movement initiated by the Medical Student Pride Alliance in response to an article in the New...

Boston, Mass. — Physicians at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, induced a sense of smell in humans by using electrodes in the nose to stimulate nerves in the olfactory bulb, a structure in the brain where smell information from the nose is processed and sent to deeper regions of...

Congratulations to Harvard Ophthalmology faculty who are recognized in Boston magazine’s 2019 Top Doctors list. Physicians are selected by their peers via an online nomination process established by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company. Linda Dagi, MD Reza...

Nazlee Zebardast, MD, MSc, has been selected to receive the Mentoring for Advancement of Physicians-Scientists (MAPS) Award by the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). The award, presented to clinicians at the early stages of their academic careers to facilitate their glaucoma research, will provide $10...

Last weekend, Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, of Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was one of seven speakers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) 2018 Technology Day symposium. The program focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, wondering if we can truly design...

Pictured above: Retinal microglia (green) and the retinal vasculature (magenta). Photo credit: Dong-Ho Park, M.D., Connor Lab. A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective role in response to retinal...

Faculty and staff from the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School gathered in the Meltzer Auditorium at Massachusetts Eye and Ear on Friday, June 22, to celebrate the 2018 graduating class of residents and fellows. Four chief residents and 13 clinical fellows graduated from the...

Our work on mosaic chromosomal alterations in the UK Biobank N=150K interim release has been published in Nature! This study used long-range haplotype phasing information to detect mosaicism in blood at very low clonal fractions (down to ~1%), producing an atlas of 8,342 mosaic events. The...