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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Maren Halpin
Health care workers and activists on Tuesday demanded that the head of defense contractor Lockheed Martin be removed from Mass General Brigham’s board of directors, saying Israel’s use of his company’s weapons in Gaza flies in the face of what a health system stands for.
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1 week ago | 
statnews.com | Jonathan Saltzman
Shortly after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard University for defying a slew of government demands, the head of Mass General Brigham said officials at the Harvard-affiliated health system believe the funding freeze shouldn’t apply to MGB. Anne Klibanski, chief executive of the state’s largest health system, said in a message emailed to employees late Monday night that officials don’t know what impact the freeze will have on MGB and Harvard Medical School.
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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Robert Weisman
Shortly after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard University for defying a slew of government demands, the head of Mass General Brigham said officials at the Harvard-affiliated health system believe the funding freeze shouldn’t apply to MGB.
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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman
As the Trump administration threatens to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding from Harvard University and its affiliates, more than 200 physicians and other workers at Mass General Brigham have called on leaders of the health system to reject a litany of demands by the government.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Chris Serres
Since President Trump’s first week in office, Harvard-affiliated hospitals, like all federal grant recipients, have been facing a late April deadline to pledge they have no “illegal” diversity, equity, or inclusion programs to keep receiving federal grants. That executive order threw uncertainty over many efforts that took years to build aimed at diversifying the ranks of doctors and improving different communities’ access to health care.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres |Liz Kowalczyk |Jonathan Saltzman |Mike Damiano |Neena Hagen
The review includes $255.6 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments, according to the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force. According to current and former administrators at Harvard and affiliated institutions, as well as members of the Trump task force, the review appears to encompass all active federal research grants and contracts to Harvard and its affiliates.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Jessica Bartlett
They include six full-time chaplains — at least half of whom worked directly with patients and families facing health crises and end-of-life decisions. Also laid off: the director of domestic violence programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who counseled patients who had survived human trafficking and other abuse; and an employee in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Living Tobacco-Free program who helped hundreds of patients quit smoking each year.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Catherine Carlock |Jonathan Saltzman
In the first major deal at MIT’s ambitious overhaul of the old Volpe Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge drugmaker Biogen said Monday it will move its headquarters into a 580,000-square-foot lab and office building that will launch construction soon and open in 2028. “Biogen has been a foundational presence in the Massachusetts life science ecosystem for close to half a century,” said Governor Maura Healey, in a statement.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman
HOLLAND — Dr. Deborah Palmer sat at the cherry wood dining room table in the home of her 71-year-old patient, trying to understand why he kept waking up in the middle of the night with a headache, indigestion, and feelings of anxiety. The patient, Kevin Tighe, a retired businessman, recently had cardiac surgery following a heart attack. He was taking at least seven drugs, including atorvastatin for high cholesterol.
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1 month ago | 
foodsafety.einnews.com | Sarah Todd |Brittany Trang |Isabella Cueto |Jonathan Saltzman
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