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The New England Free Jacks is the region’s first professional rugby team and Tufts Medical Center is proud to be its partner, keeping the players healthy and in the game.

The Wellforce Health System today announced it plans to convert its 41 Tufts Children’s Hospital pediatric inpatient beds to much-needed adult ICU and medical/surgical beds.

Innovative reconstructive surgery restores quality of life.

Boston magazine has released its annual listing of Boston’s Top Doctors and this year’s recognition includes 12 members of the MelroseWakefield Healthcare medical staff among the area’s most respected experts.

Boston Magazine has honored 154 Tufts Medical Center physicians as 2022 Boston “Top Doctors.”

A physician with a special name shares her family history and her passion for medicine.

Local residents receiving care for heart failure, kidney failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at MelroseWakefield Hospital are receiving the highest levels of care in the region according to the latest hospital rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Madigan brings decades of marketing, branding and strategy experience to the Wellforce health system.

Massachusetts residents who were vaccinated in-state can now request, view, and/or print their own COVID-19 SMART Health card.

To assist hospitals coping with the worst of the latest COVID-19 surge, Gov. Charlie Baker activated the National Guard on December 21.

Dr. Tomoko Kaneko-Tarui of MIRI gets Charlton Award.

When Nayara Nascimento went into labor on the morning of December 31, she thought she might have one of the last babies of 2021. Instead, her labor lasted 24 hours, and when little Emily entered the world at 2:47 a.m., she became Lowell General’s first baby of year.

Lawrence, Mass. – Patricia Finocchiaro, RN, MS has been promoted to clinical director of Home Health VNA, a nonprofit service provider of Lawrence-based Home Health Foundation which provides a comprehensive continuum of home health, palliative, hospice, aide and private care services in all the places patients call home.

Omicron variant is now predominant.

Lawrence, Mass. – Eric Redard has been promoted to director of volunteers, chaplaincy and bereavement services at Merrimack Valley Hospice, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization providing comfort care and supportive services to patients nearing the end of life and bereavement services to their families and loved ones.

Fernanda Alvarado, PhD, MIRI post-doc, completes CTSI Blue Star Investigator Certificate Program.

As we approach the holiday season, the physicians and staff at Lowell General and Circle Health want to thank you for the support you have shown us over this challenging year.

Thanks to all who helped us Light the Way in the courtyard entrances at both MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford as a tribute to our Healthcare Heroes.

Half of all men ages 51 to 60 have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the incidence increases every decade of life.

Frozen vegetables are a healthy and inexpensive way to get vegetables during the winter months.