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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.

Aspirin a Day Recommendation Undergoes Changes

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

Leg Pain: When Could It Be Serious?

What is heart failure and what causes it?

Do you need vein treatment?

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colon cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer deaths, resulting in over 850,000 deaths worldwide each year with almost 53,000 deaths related to the disease expected to occur in the United States in 2023.

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

Massachusetts residents who were vaccinated in-state can now request, view, and/or print their own COVID-19 SMART Health card.

When Nayara Nascimento went into labor on the morning of December 31, she thought she might have one of the last babies of 2021. Instead, her labor lasted 24 hours, and when little Emily entered the world at 2:47 a.m., she became Lowell General’s first baby of year.

Lawrence, Mass. – Patricia Finocchiaro, RN, MS has been promoted to clinical director of Home Health VNA, a nonprofit service provider of Lawrence-based Home Health Foundation which provides a comprehensive continuum of home health, palliative, hospice, aide and private care services in all the places patients call home.

Omicron variant is now predominant.

Lawrence, Mass. – Eric Redard has been promoted to director of volunteers, chaplaincy and bereavement services at Merrimack Valley Hospice, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization providing comfort care and supportive services to patients nearing the end of life and bereavement services to their families and loved ones.

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

As we approach the holiday season, the physicians and staff at Lowell General and Circle Health want to thank you for the support you have shown us over this challenging year.

Thanks to all who helped us Light the Way in the courtyard entrances at both MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford as a tribute to our Healthcare Heroes.

Frozen vegetables are a healthy and inexpensive way to get vegetables during the winter months.

In 2021, Lowell General Hospital has achieved accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Surgery by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC).

For patients facing minimally invasive surgery, Lowell General Hospital is proven to offer excellence.