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Tufts Medical Center Director of Child Life Services, Andrea Colliton, offers ten tips to help make children’s life at home feel a little more normal during this abnormal time.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, insufficient sleep has been linked to the development and management of a number of chronic diseases and conditions, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and depression.

As vaping illnesses continue to arise, Dr. Sucharita Kher, shares why the ban on vaping sales is important and how to talk with teens about smoking.

COVID-19 bivalent booster is now approved by the CDC and FDA for children as young as 5.

Smoking. Diabetes. High cholesterol and blood pressure. Not only do they increase your chance of developing heart disease, but of peripheral artery disease, a painful condition of the legs and feet. Fortunately, researchers are working on new treatments.

Pencils, notebooks and backpacks are on parents’ back-to-school check lists but what about immunizations?

Many of us are glad to see the end of 2020! We welcome 2021 with hope and optimism. And if you are like many others, with new goals and resolutions.

Get your flu shot today!

Dr. Adam Weston, an infectious disease specialist at Lowell General Hospital and a clinical leader in the hospitals’ pandemic response discusses the latest updates on 3rd dose and booster shots as well as the outlook for COVID-19 this fall.

CDC now recommends that children between the ages of 5 and 11 years receive the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine.

The Tufts Medicine Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice focuses on reducing health literacy challenges for patients and their families, as well as healthcare and public health organizations and systems.

Tufts Medicine patient Steve White, and his wife Linda, share his journey to recovering his voice after throat cancer and a laryngectomy.

Tufts Medical Center clinicians from labor and delivery, anesthesiology, critical care, hematology, ECMO and pediatrics teams worked quickly to save a new mother’s life after she suffered an amniotic fluid embolism after birth.

The Community Walks clinical trial investigates the impact of adapting the environment within Boston’s public housing developments to promote physical activity.

More than half of concussions happen to children while they’re participating in organized sports like soccer, football, cheerleading, gymnastics and baseball. With fall sports season in full swing, parents, coaches and young athletes need to know how to prevent, spot and treat concussions.

Tufts Medical Center’s Chief of Pediatric Neurology, Arnold J. Sansevere, MD is here to help us get smart about what is often thought of as an “invisible” injury.

Sabrina Kurtz Rossi presented at the Global Health Literacy Summit on September 19, 2024

The drug was found to be safe and well-tolerated; positive impact on patients helped reduce caregiver stress.

Tufts Medicine’s Shira Doron, MD, Chief Infection Control Officer, Hospital Epidemiologist and Antimicrobial Steward, Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, on preventing, identifying and treating common seasonal respiratory illnesses.

Learn how one Tufts Medicine kidney transplant patient continues to make a difference as a volunteer services manager, highlighting the life-changing impact of compassionate care, specialized treatments and philanthropy.

Tufts Medical Center’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant team has reached an exciting milestone, performing the hospital’s 800th heart transplant procedure in October 2024. “We’re proud to celebrate this milestone and every successful transplantation we have the privilege to perform, said Gregory Couper, MD, Surgical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program. “Each heart transplant is an opportunity for a person to live a longer and more fulfilling life, and it means countless more families and friends who get time with the people they love.”