longwood medical area

Charring crosses up T riders

adamg — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:02:41 +0000

So far this morning, a charred 39 bus was towed from Huntington Avenue near Brigham Circle and buses had to be rolled out for the C line when an overhead power line came down near Cleveland Circle.

Allston rapist may have attacked another woman in Fenway

adamg — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:31:55 +0000

Officials say the man who tied up and sexually assaulted a woman on Webley Road in Allston last week may also be responsible for another attack on Sept. 13 in the area of Brookline Avenue.

Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, who released this sketch today, say the Allston victim described her attacker as 20 to 25, black, with a medium complexion, thin build, 5'8" or 5'9" and dark, wavy brown hair. He spoke either Spanish or Portuguese.

Officials said the Fenway victim was unable to provide a description of her assailant; officials declined to specify why they think the two attacks may be linked.

Anyone with information can contact the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting the word TIP to CRIME (27463).

Pickup flambe

adamg — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:26:11 +0000

A roving UHub photographer was in the right place at the right time to capture a BTD Denver boot pickup going up in flames off Brigham Circle yesterday.

Fatal rollover at Riverway and Brookline Avenue overnight

adamg — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:59:23 +0000

Crushed car. Photo by Brian J. D'Amico.

A Dedham man faces OUI charges related to a fatal rollover at the Riverway and Brookline Avenue that left one of his passengers dead, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding he will likely face additional charges.

According to the DA's office, Robinson Avendano, 38, lost control of his black BMW around 1 a.m. and hit a tree before the car rolled over. A front-seat passenger, a 26-year-old Dorchester woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. Avendano and a passenger in the back seat were taken to Beth Israel Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the DA's office says.

Firefighters inspect tree the car hit. Photo by Brian J. D'Amico

Innocent, etc.

The inter-office politics of face transplants

adamg — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:36:37 +0000

The Globe has a long piece on what Dr. Bohdan Pomahac had to go through to get his hospital and a New England organ-transplant board to let him do Boston's first face transplant.

A tour of the medical area

adamg — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:59:00 +0000

Helen guides us around the Longwood Medical Area - including the remnants of Angell Memorial Hospital.

Citizen complaint of the day: First Hubway station smashing

adamg — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:47:50 +0000

An alert citizen reports this morning that somebody took offense to the Hubway bike-rental station outside the Brigham Circle Diner on Huntington Avenue.

Debt deal could hit local teaching hospitals

adamg — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:57:20 +0000

WBUR reports on possible effects of research cuts on teaching hospitals in Massachusetts, which bring in more federal science funds per capita than any other state - some $2.4 billion just from the National Institutes of Health last year.

Extra-crispy bus on Avenue Louis Pasteur

adamg — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:19:25 +0000

Kathryn Kinzel photographed the LMA shuttle bus that caught fire around 4:30 p.m. on Avenue Louis Pasteur, which was shut down as firefighters doused the bus.

Officer Mike helps Mrs. Turkey cross the road

adamg — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:52:56 +0000

Mark Garfinkel captured the scene by Harvard Medical School yesterday as a Boston cop (whose real first name is Shawn) helped a rafter of turkeys cross the road. "Good gravy!" amazed bystanders no doubt exclaimed.

Alright, who's the bonehead who just left his work lying around?

adamg — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:41:31 +0000

Channel 4 reports those skulls that turned up in a Huntington Avenue basement the other day were a) real and b) "likely used for medical research."

Skulls found in Huntington Avenue basement

adamg — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:27:03 +0000

Workers found two skulls in a box today in the basement of 760 Huntington Ave. The skulls are now in the custody of state forensics experts, who will determine if they are actually human or replicas.

Two local hospitals work to reduce major patient problem, but don't compare notes

adamg — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:51:44 +0000

Last week, Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, cited some work by the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital to reduce the number of falls patients take in the hospital. Today, he notes his own staff have taken a different approach to the problem. And then he looks at a map of where the two hospitals are and wonders:

This work at BIDMC and the work cited in the previous post from Brigham and Women's Hospital are exemplary and clearly complimentary. But what is striking is the lack of coordination between the two efforts. Two Harvard teaching hospitals, separated by only a few blocks, both concerned about patient safety, have had virtually no contact on this topic.

I hope I am misinterpreting, but I am concerned that this may be one of those instances in which the competitiveness among the Boston hospitals has spilt over into the safety arena. For sure, there are other areas in which information about quality of care is shared and protocols are examined together. But wherever there is a lack of discourse, opportunities for collaboration are lost.

Boston's other skyline

adamg — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:13:45 +0000

This photo, from the ninth floor of Northeastern's Renaissance parking garage, doesn't really do it justice, but the Longwood Medical Area skyline (and Mission Church on Mission Hill) is really quite something. You can also get a dramatic view of the medical city from Fitzgerald Park on St. Alphonsus Street on Mission Hill.

All Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, all the time

adamg — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:53:36 +0000

Boston Medscoops only covers news out of Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals.