After House Approves GOP Health Care Bill, Mass. Health Leaders Express Grave...
"I remain deeply concerned that this particular bill -- and admittedly, there are still facts to be learned about it -- would be a very difficult pill for the Commonwealth to swallow," said Gov....
View ArticleHarvard Health Policy Expert: GOP Bill Is 'Legislative Malpractice'
John McDonough is a professor of public health practice at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a former Senate staffer who worked on Obamacare.
View ArticleWhen Runners 'Hit The Wall:' Mouse Study Suggests Possible Drug To Extend...
New research points to a possible drug that activates the same benefits of training to extend endurance -- without actual exercise.
View ArticleDad, Phone Down! Mom, Stop Texting! Many Parents Set Bad Examples For Teen...
A new survey turns up some statistics on parents who text while driving that are scarier than data on teens.
View ArticleMore Ticks Than Ever This Year? Unclear, But Already Enough For Abundance Of...
As Massachusetts residents share anecdotal reports of bigger-than-usual tick infestations, experts say it's too early to tell whether this is a bumper year for ticks -- but every year is a bad year...
View ArticlePatients See Gaps In Treating Both A Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder
Many addiction treatment programs focus on substance use disorders by either weaning someone off of drugs or treating their mental health alone. It's rare for both aspects to be combined into a...
View ArticleMass. Survey On End-Of-Life Plans Finds Gap Between What We Say And What We Do
A new push aims to make Massachusetts the leading place in the country for people to "write their own script" for the care they want at the end of life.
View ArticleOpioid Overdose Deaths In Mass. Reach Grim Milestone: More Than 2,000 Died In...
A key reason deaths continue to rise is the powerful, fast-acting opioid fentanyl.
View ArticleAs Fentanyl Deaths Rise, An Off-Label Tool Becomes A Test For The Killer Opioid
A thin strip of plastic is the newest tool in the fight to curb opioid overdoses, but its value is largely untested.
View ArticleDEA Agent: 'Insidious Disease' Of Addiction And Cheap Costs Of Heroin,...
"I do think that this area, historically, had many folks who were dealing with a substance use disorder in regards to prescription pain meds being abused. And I think that has fed into our current...
View ArticleStudy: Screening And Follow-Up Care Reduce Suicide Attempts Among ER Patients
A new study shows that screening all emergency room patients for suicide risk and checking back in with them reduces suicide attempts.
View ArticleDeath By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical...
"EMRs are the medical equivalent of texting while driving, sucking the soul out of the practice of medicine while failing to improve care," three Boston doctors write.
View ArticleNano-Scale 'Dream Team': 3 MIT Professors Use Tiniest Of Tools Against Cancer
Three MIT professors are innovating at the tiniest possible scale, developing tools to see, target and kill cancer cells before they can cause any harm.
View ArticleStudy: Hospital Patients Of Younger Doctors Have A Lower Death Rate
For doctors 60 years old or younger, every 10 years of increase in their age meant about a 3 percent increase in the patient mortality rate among hospitalized seniors, the study finds.
View ArticleRenovated Roxbury Home Makes Addiction Treatment Program 'Whole Again'
New Joelyn's Home, a restored 6,000-square-foot house in Roxbury, becomes Victory Programs' new addiction treatment program for women. It has 24 beds.
View ArticleHoping To Help Doctors Dissect Data, Partners And GE Make Joint Investment In...
Partners and GE envision programs built on algorithms that filter data and could help doctors detect health problems before they would be seen by a human eye.
View ArticleWhen Cancer Can't Be Cured, Low-Dose Chemo Aims To Keep It In Check
Some cancer specialists believe a gentler, steadier chemo regimen -- rather than the traditional aggressive course -- could help with a central challenge they face: that many cancers evolve and become...
View ArticleCongrats, Med School Grad! Now It's Time To Find A Therapist.
Amid overwork and sleepless stress, roughly half of doctors-in-training experience depression, so it's best to be prepared.
View ArticleHow To Talk With Kids After Bombing At Ariana Grande Concert
Expert advice on talking with kids after the Ariana Grande concert bombing in England: reassure, stay consistent, listen more than you talk.
View ArticleGOP Health Bill Would Hike Uninsured Rate In Massachusetts To 10.3 Percent,...
That's a nearly fourfold increase from the current uninsured rate of 2.8 percent.
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