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UMass Amherst, Tufts Medical Center Launch Study to Improve HIV Care for Incarcerated People

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11
Aug

The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tufts Medical Center are conducting a study to provide HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to people with opioid operate disorder who are incarcerated in Boston-area correctional facilities. The research is funded by a $4.74 million CONNECT grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National […]

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Tufts researchers find immune cell link to doxorubicin-induced heart damage

Posted on by kreashinz
18
Jul

There is still much to learn about how doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug, causes its most worrisome side effects. Although it has saved many lives, the treatment sometimes causes heart damage that stiffens the heart and puts a subset of patients at risk for future heart failure. To better understand and potentially control such complications, […]

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