Pediatricians across Greater Boston said they are extending patient visits and booking follow-up appointments to talk to families about vaccines, sometimes at the expense of other important topics like sleep and nutrition.

Children may be more likely to be diagnosed with autism and other neurodevelopment disorders if their mother had a Covid-19 infection while pregnant, according to a new study.

Mass General patient has pig kidney removed after 271 days, setting a world record for longest survival with a genetically edited pig kidney.

Lili Ridout is a child life specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and also looks forward to this day every year. In her role, Ridout helps kids and their families cope with being in the hospital and understanding their diagnosis. Bringing a sense of normalcy and fun to her patients is always the goal.

Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis and wait for a kidney from a human donor

Children born to women who were infected with COVID-19 during their pregnancies are more prone to autism, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers reported.

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly nine months after he received the pioneering procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, officials said on Monday. The kidney was removed “after a period of decreasing kidney function,” according to a statement from the hospital.

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome damage that closely resemble those seen in Alzheimer’s. Individuals displaying signs of repeated head impact without postmortem CTE diagnoses didn’t have these changes.

Beverly Police said it happened just after 7 p.m. on Simon Street, just a few blocks from the downtown area. Officers arrived at the home to find a woman who had been shot. She was rushed to Beverly Hospital before she was medflighted to Mass General Hospital, according to police.

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's function declined.