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• Minority Kids With Autism Less Likely to Use Specialty Services: Study

  white families to receive specialty care for complications tied to the disorder, a new study finds.Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston found that the rates at which minority children accessed specialists such as gastroenterologists,   Read more »

• Boston hospital cleaning 2,500-year-old mummy

  Egyptian mummy is coming out of his coffin in Boston to undergo rare cleaning and restoration procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital.The mummy known as Padihershef has been on display at the third oldest general hospital in the United States since it   Read more »

• John Krasinski: Life after 'The Office' is 'weird'

  to help raise funds for cancer research and pay tribute to 100 people and organizations that have helped fight the disease.Krasinski hosted Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center's annual fundraiser, accompanied by his wife, actress Emily Blunt.   Read more »

• Living Near Major Roadways in Pregnancy Tied to Respiratory Woes in Children

  author Dr. Mary Rice said in an American Thoracic Society news release.Rice, a pulmonary and critical care fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and colleagues are scheduled to present their findings this week at   Read more »

Around the web

• MGH researchers discover CNVs in members of 10 families with early-onset Alzheimer's

  have been established as causative for inherited, early-onset Alzheimer's, accounting for about half of such cases. Now Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have discovered a type of mutation known as copy-number variants (CNVs) - deletions, duplications, 3:54 AM from News-Medical.net Read more »

• Girl's transplant spotlights alternatives

  them, or cells made from them, to seed onto a scaffold that's shaped like the organ he needs. Then, says Dr. Harald Ott of Massachusetts General Hospital, "we can regenerate an organ that will not be rejected (and can be) grown on demand and transplanted surgically, 1:52 AM from AOL Small Business Read more »

• Mainer among newest NASA astronauts

  Space University in Illkirch, France, Meir is an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Meir now has two months to wrap up her work at Harvard before reporting for her new job as a full-time United 6/17/13 from Sun Journal Read more »

• Minority Kids With Autism Less Likely to Use Specialty Services: Study

  from white families to receive specialty care for complications tied to the disorder, a new study finds. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston found that the rates at which minority children accessed specialists such as gastroenterologists,   from Health.com Read more »

• Mob boss Gennaro 'Jerry' Angiulo dies at 90

  Mr. Angiulo, who outlived most of his old gang and witnessed the decline of the local Mafia, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital of renal failure from kidney disease, according to his lawyer, Anthony Cardinale. The once powerful mobster, who ruled   from Boston.com Read more »