All COVID-19 – Page 41 – BIDMC’s COVID-19 Initiatives

Eva Luo, MD, Toni Golen, MD (OBYGN, BIDMC) and Alexa Kimball, MD (Dermatology, BIDMC) write in STAT how healthcare providers must continue to play an essential role in halting the cycle of domestic abuse by continuing to screen for intimate partner violence during COVID-19 and the era of telemedicine.

Rising to the challenge of screening for intimate partner violence during Covid-19

Inside the nonstop hunt for a vaccine

Inside Johnson & Johnson’s nonstop hunt for...

Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, Chief Academic Officer, BIDMC and BILH, discusses how lab work has changed due to COVID-19. She encouraged lab members not in the lab to take advantage and “do some deep thinking.” They should ask themselves, she said, whether they’re on the right path and, if so, think about new projects, set goals for the next year, and consider where they see themselves in five years.

Same old labs but not

Researchers at BIDMC and Massachusetts General Hospital published a study Thursday in the Annals of Hematology that found no evidence that blood type affects whether someone develops severe symptoms (defined as intubation or death) from a coronavirus infection.

Why do we have different blood types — and do they make us more vulnerable to Covid-19?

Alden Landry (Emergency Medicine, BIDMC) shares what he learned while fighting on the frontlines of the COVID-19 surge in Boston.

'You can beat the pandemic.' Former front-line workers share tips for coping with the COVID-19 surge

Researchers at BIDMC, led by Scott Fligor, MD (Surgery, BIDMC) analyzed 15 years of data to determine how long surgery for certain types of cancer can be delayed without harming patients’ chances of survival. The study began in early spring, as the pandemic led many hospitals to cancel or postpone non-emergency procedures, including surgery for cancer.

Tough Decisions as COVID-19 Causes Cancer Surgery Delays

Dan Barouch, MD, PhD (Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC) discusses how the decades-long investment in HIV research has helped to further boost the research for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Decades of research on an HIV vaccine boosts the bid for one against coronavirus

Kartik Sehgal, MD (Hematology-Oncology, BIDMC) co-led a report published in Nature Medicine that chronicled the many ways that COVID-19 goes beyond the lungs to affect the heart, brain, kidneys and endocrine system. The extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 are incredibly varied, researchers say, with the heart and kidneys particularly vulnerable to damage.

Heart, Kidneys, Brain, and More: COVID-19’s Wide-ranging Effects

David Steeves, an engineering teacher at Chelmsford High School, delivered over 500 3D printed face shields to BIDMC, Mass General Hospital, and the Boston Emergency Operations Center.

HOMETOWN HEROES -- Chelmsford teacher creates 3D face shields

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