Many Seek Care At Boston 'Tick-Borne Impairment' Clinic That Tries To Avoid...
Instead of focusing on the most contentious Lyme disease questions -- diagnostic labels, long-term antibiotics -- Spaulding Hospital's Dean Center sidesteps the controversy and focuses on treating...
View ArticleWhy Doctors Need To Remember That Sick Patients Were Once Healthy People
In medicine, it is easy to forget that life is far more than just a beating heart or breathing lungs.
View ArticleThe Opioid Epidemic Needs A Strategy For Teens
"We are facing a new reality: our patients, who could be your next-door neighbor’s child or even your own, need help confronting the traditionally ‘adult’ problem of addiction," write Dr. Scott...
View Article7 Things I Learned While Reporting On Lyme And Other Tick-Borne Diseases
Dr. David Scales offers lessons learned from his months of reporting.
View ArticleReports Of Rehab Scams Raise Concerns About Addiction Treatment Quality
In Massachusetts, health officials say the treatment system is strong, even though 300 complaints were filed last year against treatment programs.
View ArticleWhy Patients May Be Put In Charge Of Their Own Post-Operative Care
My father is on the leading edge of a growing trend for routine surgical patients with no complications and no other complex medical problems: Get out and stay out.
View ArticleOpioid Drug Users Tell Of Rarely Discussed Injury: Rape
Kristin, 32, who's been addicted to opioids since she was 13, has story after story of unwanted kissing and groping.
View ArticleOn Capitol Hill, Gov. Baker Will Push A Bipartisan Approach To Health Care...
Gov. Charlie Baker will testify on Capitol Hill on Thursday alongside four other governors -- two fellow Republicans and two Democrats -- in the latest sign that he's playing a role in the next phase...
View ArticleHouston Lesson: Anti-Immigrant Moves Put Public Health At Greater Risk
A primary care doctor who treats many immigrants writes that fear caused by the Trump administration's crackdown leaves immigrants --Â and all of us -- at greater risk for health problems.
View ArticleMass. Lawmakers Debate Supervised Injection Facilities
The proposed measure would authorize places, sometimes called supervised injection facilities (SIFs), where drug users could swallow, snort or inject illegal substances while monitored by a doctor or...
View ArticleBaker And Warren On Same Page At Health Care Hearing
Baker and four other governors testified before a Senate committee, of which Warren is a member, on ways to stabilize the individual insurance market.
View ArticleGov. Baker Testifies On Health Care Before Senate Committee
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker testified before a Senate committee as part of a rare bipartisan effort to stabilize the Affordable Care Act. WBUR's Anthony Brooks reports from Washington.
View ArticleDoctors Should Be Doing More To Help Patients Eat Better, JAMA Editorial Argues
Time is tight. Insurance coverage is tricky. But still, doctors should be doing more to help their patients eat better, argues a new editorial in the journal JAMA.
View ArticleMale Patients Are Likelier To Bail On Female Doctors. The Question Is Why
Responses to the data suggest one big reason is men's discomfort with intimate exams done by a woman doctor, especially if more than one female medical staffer is present.
View ArticleStudy: No Rise In Early Deaths Among Women Who Used Hormone Therapy
After 18 years, the biggest randomized study on hormone therapy finds menopausal women who used it did not tend to die sooner, but they didn't tend to live longer either.
View ArticleIs It Addiction Treatment Or Prison? A Look Inside A State Center For...
Some say these commitments save lives, while others say forced treatment is ineffective and violates people's civil rights.
View ArticleMassachusetts Bends Under Health Care Spending Bar In 2016
Health care spending grew 2.8 percent last year, below a 3.6 percent benchmark.
View Article$115M Gift, Biggest Ever To Boston University, Backs Life Sciences, Engineering
The gift from trustee Rajen Kilachand will support a new building and an endowment for life science and engineering advances.
View ArticleNew Bedford Clergy And Police Fight Opioid Epidemic One Person At A Time
In New Bedford, outreach teams made up of of a police officer, a member of the clergy, and some type of drug counselor go out three nights a week looking for people who've recently survived an opioid...
View ArticleWhy We Can't Have Nice Things, Like A More Rational Health Care System
The new book "Unhealthy Politics" explores why so much of the medical care Americans get lacks strong scientific evidence on how effective it is, and the role doctors, politicians and the public play.
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