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01/06/2021
Every year, Boston magazine publishes a comprehensive summary of the "Top Doctors" in the region. Compiled from a Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. physician database, it features hundreds of physicians from various specialties and disciplines. We are excited to share that 21 CHA physicians have been selected for 2021. This honor recognizes their commitment to our patients, and it reflects the dedication of all providers and clinical staff across CHA. Click here to see the list , which is in Boston's January...
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12/30/2020
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12/20/2020
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12/15/2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north communities and one of the region’s leading providers of behavioral and mental health care, is partnering with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to expand inpatient psychiatric care in the region. The plan, approved today by CHA’s Board of Trustees, grows inpatient capacity by 64 beds at CHA and includes new services to address the needs of special populations who are at h...
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12/10/2020
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH, co-director of the Center for Health Equity Education & Advocacy (CHEEA) and a primary care physician at the CHA Somerville Campus, was named a 2020 Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists for his advocacy work to address to air pollution, racism, poverty and climate change. The recognition is awarded each year to a small selection of individuals and groups who have taken a stand for science to protect the common good. Dr. Basu has leveraged medical experience to ...
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12/09/2020
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12/03/2020
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11/11/2020
Cambridge Health Alliance physician Leah Zallman, MD, MPH, passed away on November 5th from injuries sustained in an accident earlier in the week. As a primary care physician at the East Cambridge Care Center, director of research at the Institute for Community Health and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Leah truly lived the ideals at the heart of CHA's mission as an academic community healthcare system. She completed her fellowship in general internal medicine at CHA and de...
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11/04/2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston's metro-north region, has launched a clinical drug trial (ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT04419025 ) to explore whether N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a drug commonly used to treat acetaminophen (Tylenol) poisoning and prevent exacerbations of COPD (emphysema), can prevent mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms in patients from progressing to severe disease. “We are hoping to prove that th...
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10/29/2020