A team of doctors at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA collaborated to care for sickle cell disease patient Michaela and her sister, Danisha, who donated her bone marrow.
After learning of a chronic kidney disease, Colleen turned to the team at Tufts MC to find a kidney donor and found a match in her teammate and now life partner.
For years, Jeff, an active man in his early 40s and an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at a hospital in New Bedford, couldn’t understand why he felt so tired. Neither could his medical doctors. He received various diagnoses, with no improvement in his symptoms.
Tufts Medical Center announced today that Ming Zhou, MD, PhD, a world-renowned urological pathologist, researcher and academic, has been named Pathologist-in-Chief
A national clinical trial has found that vitamin D supplementation does not significantly reduce the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes in people who are at high risk for the disease and already have sufficient vitamin D levels.
Albert Plummer received the first heart transplant at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC), giving him 11 more years with his family doing the things he loved. He left a lasting legacy on the Tufts Medical Center CardioVascular Center.
Julia's time as an athlete taught her to never give up and that she didn't like to lose. Julia put those feelings to action when she came to the Weight and Wellness Center at Tufts Medical Center for weight loss surgery.
After going to a pain management specialist and a chiropractor, and trying various treatment, Lee caught out a spine specialist to help with her spinal stenosis.
Jabarah Harley always struggled with weight management but when the number on the scale changed, she sought out the help of the Tufts Medical Center Weight and Wellness Center team.
There was only one thing that was more important to Bob than receiving a kidney transplant. Seeing his son graduate. Tufts Medical Center's Kidney Transplant team made both happen.
Deb was in love with sugar. She decided to cleanse her body of sugar with the help of the Weight and Wellness Center at Tufts Medical Center. Read her story.
Tufts Medical Center announced today that its Emergency Department (ED) has received Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), recognizing the highest level of excellence in care for older adults.
It was April 8, 2018, and Dana Corr was looking forward to celebrating his 55th birthday that day with his wife and two daughters in their Westford home. He had just returned from a trip visiting colleges in Rhode Island the day before with his daughter. Unfortunately, all celebrations were put on hold that day as his heart seemed to have other plans.
I am a family member of a Tufts Medical Center patient. My husband was brought to Tufts as a result of his declining health due to heart failure. The care he received at Tufts MC enabled him to recover from a serious, and at times critical, condition to a point that he is able to have a good quality of life as he awaits a heart transplant.
Phillipe doesn’t like to sit still. An architect at a firm in Boston’s Seaport, he’s used to being on the move – at work, at home and at the gym. In early 2018, he was forced to slow down when a debilitating back injury interfered with his busy life.