Science Shortfall: Why Don't We Know How Best To Fight Ticks And Lyme Disease?
Good science takes strong funding, and researchers just don't have the money to do the high-quality studies needed to answer some of the most important ecological questions even as ticks and their...
View ArticleLatest Idea In The Battle Against Opioid Addiction: A 'Soup To Nuts' Recovery...
Two groups representing South End residents and businesses are proposing creating an addiction treatment and research campus at Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where patients dealing with...
View ArticleUnion Nurses Are Back At Work At Tufts Medical Center
The nurses staged a one-day strike, and then were locked out by the hospital for four days.
View ArticleMap: Where Lyme Disease Is Worsening In Mass.
Lyme disease is a big -- and growing -- problem in Massachusetts. Here's a county-by-county look.
View ArticleLatest Study: No, Treadmill Desks Don't Make You Dumber
Some past research has suggested there may be a cognitive price to walking while working, but a new study finds no impairment in executive function.
View ArticleCaution, Not Relief, In Mass. After Senate GOP Leaders Drop Health Care Bill
Uncertainty about what’s next on Capitol Hill is stoking anxiety for many who work in or depend on health care, including those in Massachusetts.
View ArticleGov. Baker, If You Met My Immigrant Patients, You'd Support 'Safe Communities...
A primary care doctor describes the fear she sees among her immigrant patients and wishes the governor could see it as well, in hopes it would persuade him to support a "sanctuary state" bill.
View ArticleGlioblastoma Is A Grim Diagnosis, But There Are Some Signs Of Hope
With rapid progress in research, the longer Sen. John McCain and other glioblastoma patients can hang on, the better their chances that some new treatment will help them.
View ArticleOur Dogs Can Get Lyme Vaccines And We (Still) Can't. When Might We?
New vaccines or antibodies against Lyme disease in humans won't be available for several years at best, but at least there are projects underway, including clinical trials that began this year.
View ArticleAgainst Medical Advice: Sometimes, When Patients Defy Accepted Wisdom, So...
Keeping the whole patient in view, including the social challenges they'll return to after their short stint in a hospital, is as much a part of medical decision-making as diagnosis and prescription.
View ArticleAnalyst: MassHealth Enrollment Has Stabilized, So Baker's Proposals May Not...
The retired president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says Gov. Charlie Baker "has put forward probably the most sweeping changes in Medicaid or MassHealth in the 50 years of its existence,"...
View ArticleMedical Ethics: In The Charlie Gard Case, Listen To The Nurses
In the tragic case of Charlie Gard, the British baby with brain damage whose fate pitted doctors against parents, a medical ethicist would give special consideration to his nurses.
View ArticleHouse Rejects Gov. Baker's MassHealth Reforms
Baker wanted to move an estimated 140,000 non-disabled people off MassHealth and into subsidized insurance provided through the state's Health Connector.
View Article'Mosaic' HIV Vaccine Looks Good In Early Trial, Boston Researcher Tells AIDS...
It's a "mosaic" vaccine that tries to cover the many varieties of HIV around the globe by computer-generating synthetic HIV sequences -- and it could be ready for a big clinical trial in Africa this...
View ArticleEarly, Unofficial Doctor's Office Data Supports Prediction Of Heavy Lyme...
Overall doctors are diagnosing about 15 percent more Lyme disease cases than they did last year, according to athenahealth -- with a lot of geographical variation.
View ArticleBaker And 9 Other Governors Urge Senate To Reject 'Skinny Repeal' Of Obamacare
"Skinny repeal," the 10 governors write, "is expected to accelerate health plans leaving the individual market, increase premiums, and result in fewer Americans having access to coverage."
View ArticleWinchester Hospital Reports Possible Scabies Outbreak
Officials at Winchester Hospital say more than 20 hospital employees are receiving treatment after it was discovered that a patient was showing symptoms of an active infection.
View ArticleHarvard Psychiatrist: How Trump's Speech Was Toxic For Boy Scouts Beyond...
A child psychiatrist lays out specific ways that President Trump's speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree could be toxic to the boys who heard it, and how to counteract them.
View ArticleHow Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston
In a city steeped in history, very few residents understand the powerful legacy of opium money.
View ArticleMass. General Chief Decries Transgender Ban, As More Doctors Speak Out...
"Not only was I moved by Dr. Slavin’s strong and direct public stand against the ban, I was also bit surprised by it, as I suspect many of my colleagues were. Traditionally, health professionals have...
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