Brigham and Women’s Hospital

A plastic surgery team performed the hospital’s second full face transplant last week, less than a month after the hospital performed the first full face transplant in the country.

Dr. Patrick T. O'Gara receives the prestigious Paul Dudley White award.

Researchers at BWH create an injectable gel that could spell the future for treating arthritis.

Blood pressure’s daily internal cycle doesn’t appear to be linked to the known increase in morning heart attacks, according to new research from BWH.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from a consortium of investigators has identified four new genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

Approximately five percent of prescriptions submitted by CVS Caremark Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) members in a 30-day period during 2009 included a "dispense as written" designation, costing the health care system up to $7.7 billion annually.

A Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) plastic surgery team, led by Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, performed the first full face transplant in the country last week, the second face transplant procedure to be performed at BWH.

New research from the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (DF/BWCC) shows that newer, more expensive treatment options for prostate cancer were adopted rapidly and widely during 2002 - 2005 without proof of their cost-effectiveness.

Christopher J. Morris, PhD, of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is one of four scientists selected by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) for a postdoctoral fellowship.

Women who received one of three treatments for uterine fibroids aid their symptoms diminished and their quality of life significantly increased.