A New Study Finds Good News About Treating Addiction
A survey of more than 39,000 people about their experiences with substance abuse has revealed some new information about addiction treatment.
View ArticleHarvard Forum: Should Older Politicians And Judges Be Tested For Mental Decline?
Politicians and judges tend to serve well into old age, yet we know that cognitive function tends to decline with age, and some are likely to be impaired. So what to do?
View ArticleCountering Trump, Mass. Swiftly Passes New Law Ensuring Access To No-Cost...
An unusual coalition of birth control advocates, health insurers and politicians came together to help the bill sail through and become the first state-law response to the October rule easing the...
View ArticleChoosing Wisely: 5 Years Into Uphill Battle To Reduce Medical Over-Treatment
Decades of overuse in health care can’t be reversed just by issuing a set of proclamations, but at least Choosing Wisely’s message is now part of medical school training, and both doctors and patients...
View ArticleIs It A Boy? Girl? Time To Stop Asking? The Gender Reveal Party Reconsidered
A doctor who specializes in babies whose gender is unclear raises questions about the huge emphasis on "boy or girl?," during pregnancy and after birth.
View ArticleFacial Surgery Could Transform Tami — And Transgender Medicine
Tami's goal with facial feminization surgery: "To help me pass as the woman that I am."
View ArticleMore Than Half Of Today's American Kids Will Be Obese By Age 35, Harvard...
The study projects that if current tends continue, more than 57 percent of today's youth will be obese at age 35.
View ArticleGov. Baker And Oregon's Governor Urge Congress To Act On Children's Health...
The Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, expired Sept. 30. Congress has yet to reauthorize it, despite apparent support in both the House and Senate.
View ArticleHow To Use This Wave Of Sexual Harassment Revelations To Teach Our Kids
Some expert help with the ticklish dinner-table or carpool conversations that may arise as the news brings one appalling revelation of sexual harassment and assault after another.
View ArticleMass. Medical Society Drops Opposition To Medical Aid In Dying
The society adopted the resolution after hours of impassioned debate.
View ArticleMass. Judiciary Considers Whether To Ban Opioids As Courtroom Evidence
The chief justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court recently told prosecutors that she fears allowing fentanyl and carfentanil into courtrooms puts lawyers, jurors and defendants at risk even when the...
View ArticleCVS Agrees To Buy Aetna For $69 Billion
The mammoth acquisition pairs a company that runs more than 9,700 drugstores and 1,100 walk-in clinics with an insurer covering around 22 million people.
View ArticleEarly Flu Season Hits Mass., Amid Questions About Vaccine Match
If the Southern Hemisphere's recent season is any indication, this could be a rough year, with lots of flu and a poor vaccine match, possibly hindered by the production process in eggs.
View ArticleMore Mass. Communities Are Planning To Sue Big Pharma For The Opioid Crisis
Unlike legal action at the state level, these suits would seek damages that would go directly to the communities.
View ArticleBoston University To Begin Researching World's Deadliest Infectious Diseases...
Ronald Corley, director of BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, joined WBUR to discuss.
View ArticleU.S. Flu Season Off To Early Start; Widespread In 7 States, Including Mass.
This year's flu season is off to a quick start and so far it seems to be dominated by a nasty bug.
View ArticleMedical Science Should Learn To Tap The Urgency Of Families Desperate To Save...
A Harvard physician-scientist calls for "special-ops" research teams led by family members who act as biomedical "citizen scientists" and may come to know more than some medical professionals.
View ArticleMass. Rises To No. 1 In National Health Rankings, But Challenges Remain
The state has more people covered by health insurance, a lower obesity rate and more mental health care than other states -- and smoking is way down in the last five years.
View ArticleMass. Individual Mandate Would Remain If Fed Mandate Is Repealed
The national mandate for health insurance coverage may be repealed, but in Massachusetts, the law mandating coverage will remain.
View ArticleSome ADHD Drugs Slightly Raise Risk Of Heart Birth Defects, Major Study Finds
About 10 in every 1,000 babies are born with heart defects. Among mothers who take methylphenidate -- Ritalin and Concerta -- for ADHD, that rises to 13 per 1,000, the study finds.
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