Boston Medical Center News

New Study Finds COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbated Anxiety and Depression in Racial and Ethnic Minority Children

Pharmacy Standing Orders Increased the Dispensing of Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdoses in Massachusetts

BMC Pediatrics Residents Receive National Recognition for Health Equity Grand Rounds

Expanded Child Tax Credit ‘has to be in’ final version of Build Back Better Act, Sen. Ed Markey says

Boston Medical Center Health System Launches Health Equity Accelerator to Close Disparities in Healthcare

Unstable Housing, Homelessness Associated with COVID-19 Re-infection

Advanced Imaging May Not Be Necessary to Screen Stroke Patients for Mechanical Thrombectomy

Car crash deaths involving cannabis increasing and more likely to involve alcohol

Mother-to-child HIV transmission lower in infants with high antibody function levels

The antibody function known as antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is associated with protection against HIV in infants, according to new research from Boston Medical Center. Data from the study show that infants with high levels of ADCC against their mother’s strain of HIV are less likely to get HIV through breast milk and have lower rates of morbidity and death even without antiretroviral therapy.

Boston Firearm Violence Higher in Areas that were Redlined in 1930s