For patients with COVID-19, terrifying shortness of breath can set in virtually overnight. In many cases, it’s caused by an aggressive pneumonia...
Health & Science
May 19, 2020 Large Image
Software developed at Tufts has been successful at identifying COVID-19 pneumonia in more than 99 percent of the X-ray images it processes
May 19, 2020 Large Image
How a physician and a dentist teamed up to help an infant girl breathe easily
No one expected the baby to be born with a rare condition that prevented her from breathing through her tiny nose, making eating and sleeping...
May 17, 2020 Large Image
Tragedy threatened to derail Lisha Shakya-Lee’s dream of becoming a dentist—until her community at Tufts stepped up
One day in March 2019, Lisha Shakya-Lee, D20, woke up in the emergency room at Tufts Medical Center. A doctor told her she had passed out while...
May 14, 2020 Large Image
A depression medication carries a small risk for pregnant women of adverse side effects on their children’s development. Now a Tufts team might have found a way to counter these effects in fruit flies
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI’s, are popular drugs that treat depression by increasing the amount of a neurotransmitter called...
May 13, 2020 Large Image
A recent graduate from the Tufts School of Medicine talks about his path from Albania to matching to a residency in neurosurgery
Growing up in Albania—a small country in the southern Balkans—Emal Lesha had a dream of one day becoming a doctor. His dream became true last...