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Mass General Brigham

Boston-based nonprofit health system formed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, encompassing hospitals and research institutes.

Known aliases

  • Mass General Brigham for Children
  • MGB

Current stories

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Food insecurity gap between LGBTQ+ and other Massachusetts adults survives adjustment for income

Harvard Pilgrim researchers found 54.9% of LGBTQ+ adults in Massachusetts were food insecure in 2024, against 33.3% of other adults. The authors attribute the part income cannot explain to stigma and access barriers, a link their survey documents but does not test.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
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Few young Medicaid patients with opioid use disorder stay on medication for six months

Scott Hadland's Medicaid study of nearly 230,000 youth with opioid use disorder found medication starts edged up while six-month retention may have fallen. Most patients are lost before that point, since five in six young people engaged in care receive no medication at all.

Publishers:statnews.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption12
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
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MitoCarta's survey of five parasites and a plant finds proteins absent from human mitochondria

Broad Institute-led researchers have catalogued mitochondrial proteins in one plant and five human parasites across nine papers in Cell and related journals. Parasite proteins that human mitochondria lack give neglected tropical disease programs a first list of candidate drug targets to test.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence55
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Aging clocks put machine-perfused donor livers about 30% younger than iced ones

A Mass General Brigham team read two sets of aging clocks across 122 donated livers and found the pumped ones biologically younger, though a Berlin surgeon says what that does for recipients is still unclear.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption30
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence55
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Extended Paxlovid courses failed to beat placebo in a long Covid trial

A Mass General Brigham team stretched a five-day antiviral course to as long as 25 days and tested each ingredient on its own. No clinical benefit appeared, which narrows the viral persistence theory without retiring it.

Publishers:statnews.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives28
Confidence55