Man Awarded $18.4 Million By Boston Jury In Lawsuit Over Canceled HIV Test
A Boston federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.
View ArticleGawande Will Lead Boston-Based Health Co. Formed By Amazon, Berkshire...
Dr. Atul Gawande has been picked as the head of a new company. Its goal is reduce health care costs for American employees working at the three firms.
View ArticleHarvard Project Seeks 'Exceptional Responder' Cancer Patients To Figure Out...
The "Network of Enigmatic Exceptional Responders" aims to gather masses of data on nearly everything about these rare cancer patients, in hopes of finding patterns to help others.
View ArticleCentury-Old TB Vaccine Shows Promise Against Type 1 Diabetes, MGH Research Finds
Extended clinical trial results from Mass. General suggest an inexpensive vaccine for tuberculosis could reduce blood sugar in those with Type 1 diabetes.
View ArticleNew Guidelines Can Help Hospitals With Treating Opioid Patients
Hospitals across the state are seeing an surge of opioid patients with infections or injuries. Many are still active users. Some are in recovery. All present dilemmas. To help, the Massachusetts...
View ArticleTurmoil Of Opioid Epidemic Is Targeted In New Hospital Guide
The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association is out with what it says is the first statewide "guide for patient management with regards to opioid misuse."
View ArticleA Psychiatrist's National Prescription For Fixing What We've Done At The Border
Dr. Steven Schlozman writes about the health effects that President Trump's immigration policies are having on all Americans, and how people can work to reclaim the American ideals he worries have...
View ArticleDr. Warner Slack, Electronic Medical Records Pioneer And Champion Of 'Patient...
"He was the patron saint of the movement to get patients involved in health care by involving us in our medical records," says Dave deBronkart, a stage 4 cancer survivor and activist for patient...
View ArticleWhy Boston Medical Center Is Investing In Housing
Advocates say BMC’s investment is part of a burgeoning shift among health care leaders to view housing as a key “social determinant of health."
View ArticleConsumers Fear GMOs Less When They’re Labeled, Vermont Study Finds
As federal deliberation on GMO labeling ramps up, a Vermont study finds that required labeling actually made consumers more confident in genetically engineered foods.
View ArticleTrump Administration Rejects Mass. Plan To Curb Medicaid Drug Prices
The Massachusetts proposal, described as the "vanguard" of state efforts to control rising pharmaceutical costs within Medicaid, might have established a market-driven model for other programs.
View ArticleCut Spending In Final Year Of Life? MIT Study Finds Death Too Unpredictable
Even with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, it's much harder than you might think to predict who's going to die soon in most cases.
View ArticleWhy Your Brain Never Runs Out Of Problems To Find
A Harvard psychologist shares a new research finding: As problems become rarer, our brains experience "concept creep," moving the goalposts and defining smaller issues as problems.
View ArticleMass. Senate Votes For Tobacco Purchase Age Of 21
If the governor signs the bill, Massachusetts will become the sixth state in the country to refuse to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.
View Article1 In 5 Mass. Adults Have Recently Used Marijuana Recreationally, Study Finds
A new study of Massachusetts adults shows that about 20 percent have used recreational cannabis in the past 30 days.
View ArticleWant To Prevent HIV Among Young Gay And Bisexual Men? Try Turning Sex Ed Into...
A study finds that a vivid online game-and-soap-opera program dramatically cut the rates of sexually transmitted infections among young gay and bisexual men compared to standard sex ed materials.
View ArticleFollowing Study, Some Doctors Are Concerned Over Marijuana Use Among Young...
Of the more than 3,000 adults surveyed, young adults reported the highest rates of pot consumption.
View ArticleMultiple Cups Of Coffee — Brewed Or Instant, Caf Or Decaf — May Be Good For...
The study seems to suggest you can get much the same health benefits from cheap supermarket coffee as from a fancy cup of artisanal terroir coffee.
View ArticleIs Juul Making It Easy For Kids To Vape In School? New Study Suggests Yes
New research on the widely-popular Juul e-cigarette suggests fears of teenagers using them at school may be warranted.
View ArticleWhat Data And Quality Measures Should We Get About Childbirth At Mass....
Back in 2015, we created a tool to help women and their partners compare childbirth quality measures at hospitals across Massachusetts. We'd like to update it, and are looking for a little help.
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