Commission Urges Declaration Of National Emergency To Address Opioid Crisis
An opioid crisis commission appointed by President Trump is urging to declare a national emergency. Ther findings, in a draft report, are framed by this fact -- 142 Americans are dying of a drug...
View ArticleAs The Opium Trade Boomed In The 1800s, Boston Doctors Raised Addiction Concerns
The story begins with a doctor's editorial in 1833, during the peak period when Boston merchants were selling the drug illegally in China.
View ArticleDoctor: Under National Emergency, President Could More Easily Deploy 'Rapid'...
Dr. Bertha Madras, of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joined Morning Edition.
View ArticleStates With More Abortion Restrictions Score Worse On Women's Health, Study...
States with more abortion restrictions tend to score worse when it comes to health outcomes for women and children, according to a new study from a research group and an advocacy center that support...
View ArticleGov. Baker Will Agree To New Health Care Fees, Fines On Employers
Gov. Charlie Baker will sign into law $200 million in new fees and fines on state employers to help pay for MassHealth without sought-after reforms to the program.
View ArticleSpike In Google Searches About Suicide After '13 Reasons Why,' And Lessons...
Google searches on suicide spiked by about 19 percent overall in the days after the series was released, with a rise both in queries about "how to commit suicide" and questions about prevention and...
View Article'Mozak' Lets Online Players Beat Brain Scientists At Their Own Game
Call it "citizen neuroscience," games like the new Mozak -- akin to a very challenging connect-the-dots as you trace a neuron -- that let you contribute to brain science as you play.
View ArticleCan Geometry Help Fix Our Political System? Mathematicians Invite Public To...
A group of Boston-based mathematicians calling themselves the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group are holding public workshops this week in an effort to get the "mathematically inclined" more...
View ArticleSome Mass. Jails To Offer Inmates Meds, Like Vivitrol And Suboxone, To Treat...
Half a million dollars in federal funding will be used to offer medication-assisted treatment to inmates nearing releases at five of the state's 13 jails.
View ArticleStudy: 1 In 5 Family Doctors Accepted Money From Pharma Companies Related To...
Between August 2013 and December 2015, a total of $46 million in opioid-related payments went to doctors. Most of the money went to 1 percent of the doctors.
View ArticleExpert: Trump Declaration Of National Emergency May Free Up Funding,...
"Something that is unclear right now is whether the administration has a plan to utilize this declaration," Dr. Andrew Kolodny said.
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From The French About Fighting Lyme Disease
France is the first country to release a national plan to fight Lyme disease -- though it has far fewer cases than the U.S. -- and Dr. David Scales looks at its efforts to improve prevention, tracking...
View Article4 Die Of Overdoses In Chelsea Over The Weekend
Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes said it's possible that the drugs used may have been laced with fentanyl.
View ArticleHarvard Study Of Skeletons Suggests Much Age-Related Arthritis May Be...
If we're right that "wear and tear" cause arthritis as we age, why did our grandparents and ancestors have much less of it than we do?
View ArticleNew Data Shows Populations At Risk In Mass. Opioid Epidemic
The Baker administration released new data that shows how widespread addiction to heroin and other opioids has become and who is most at risk.
View ArticleOne Step Closer To Making Mice That Fight Lyme, Scientists Ask Nantucket:...
If the proposal comes to fruition, it could mean that a few years from now, islanders will witness the first deliberate release of a gene-edited mammal into the environment, says MIT biologist Kevin...
View ArticleInventive Help For Mental Health One College Student Would Suggest To Another
Beyond the campus counseling center, college students have many new and inventive options to help them support their own -- and their friends' -- mental health.
View ArticleSolar Burn: Why You Really, Truly Should Not Peek Bare-Eyed At The Eclipse
Remember using a magnifying glass to focus the sun to burn a hole in a piece of paper? You don't want to do that to your retina.
View ArticleState Officials 'Encouraged' By Drop In Overdose Deaths
A quarterly report shows an estimated 5 percent drop in overdose fatalities in the first six months of this year, as compared with the same period in 2016. But death rates are still rising.
View ArticleTelemedicine Helps Patients And Cuts Costs, But Mass. Is Far Behind
"If Massachusetts is serious about controlling its high costs," writes Scott Haller, "there is no better next step than to expand telemedicine's use."
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