...satisfy people looking for a cure for obesity, said Dr. Michael Dansinger, an obesity researcher at Tufts-New England Medical Center who was not involved in the study. "This is like losing the Super Bowl but claiming a second place victory...

...year, or 15 percent of the nation's stroke victims, doctors said. Imaging specialist Dr. Joseph Polak at New England Medical Center in Boston said more doctors should now consider adopting the technique. "It's a relatively big impact for...

...my heart this is a very exciting breakthrough in our field." Shikora, head of bariatric surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, presented the study in Fort Lauderdale at the annual scientific meeting of the American Association...

...benefiting from a Boston physician who makes virtual house calls. Dr. Dan Carlin of the WorldClinic at the New England Medical Center has guided the solo sailors through surgery and aggressive antibiotic treatments since the around-the-world...

...very difficult to get stability in that knee again," said Dr. John Richmond, director of sports medicine at New England Medical Center in Boston, prior to the operation. "You have to worry about both stability and flexibility, and that's...

...presence in front of the net as he was in the community. Neely helped to create the Cam Neely Foundation at the New England Medical Center, a home for families of patients with cancer. The disease killed Neely's parents. While playing with an...

...were surprised to see how powerful this association is in early childhood," said Dr. William H. Dietz of New England Medical Center in Boston. "It is much more powerful than the weight of the child." Many other studies have shown that overweight...

...unless the talker holds the phone directly over his chest. Physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the New England Medical Center in Massachusetts and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center studied 980 people with pacemakers. They...

...million people would qualify for the surgery, said Dr. Scott Shikora, head of bariatric surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. Tufts, which has the city's largest obesity surgery program, closed to new patients for nearly...

...1993. Pierce didn't realize how close he came to dying until after he spoke with doctors following surgery at New England Medical Center. If the knife had struck his chest "one inch left or one inch to the right," Pierce said, "I probably wouldn't...