MGH Becomes 1st Mass. ER To Offer Addiction Medication, Maps Seamless Path To...
The hospital is now offering buprenorphine to patients with an opioid use disorder who want to start treatment on the spot. It's part of a larger continuum of care.
View ArticleStandard Age For Mammograms Puts Nonwhite Women At Risk, Study Finds
Federal guidelines recommend that women get screened for breast cancer annually after age 50. That time-frame makes sense for white women, but not for women of color, a new study finds.
View ArticleFalse News Travels Farther, Faster Than The Truth, MIT Study Finds
Fake information was 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than facts, the study showed.
View ArticleA Quarter Of Mass. Residents Know Someone Who Died Of An Opioid Overdose,...
The survey, conducted by insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, also found that 71 percent of respondents say the opioid epidemic is the biggest problem facing the state.
View ArticleWhy Are U.S. Health Costs The World's Highest? Study Affirms 'It's The...
The overriding reason for our out-of-whack costs is the exorbitant price tag attached to everything from doctors' time to prostatectomies to brand-name drugs, the Harvard study finds -- not extra or...
View ArticleFamily Caregivers, Whose Care Is Valued At $500B, Are Finally Gaining More...
"Caregiver nation" -- 40 million strong -- recently gained major validation in federal and state laws that give unpaid family caregivers more recognition.
View ArticlePediatrics Pioneer Brazelton, 99, Remembered As 'Baby Whisperer' And...
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton was remembered as a leading thinker on child development who knew how to listen, both to babies and their parents.
View ArticleEmergency Rooms Share Records To Catch Patients Who Bounce From One To Another
A pilot program would alert ER workers to patients who have been frequent visitors in other ERs.
View ArticleCoffee, Sex And Sushi: An Evidence Update On Pregnancy Do's And Don’ts
A leading obstetrics journal lays out the state of the data on the most commonly asked pregnancy questions, from back-sleeping to air travel.
View ArticlePolicies To Help Americans Be Happier? Start With More Public Spending For...
Policymakers need a host of carefully controlled experimental trials of particular policies in order to obtain precise estimates of their effects on happiness, an MIT researcher writes.
View ArticleMedical Milestone In Boston: 13-Year-Old Gets New Gene Therapy For Blindness
"This is the first time that an FDA-approved gene therapy was given to a patient for any inherited disease," says surgeon Jason Comander of Mass. Eye and Ear.
View ArticleMumps Vaccine Protection Wanes Over Time, Study Finds
Mumps cases have spiked in recent years largely because of waning immunity to the vaccine, new study finds. People exposed to an outbreak may need a booster.
View ArticleLowell Issues Warning After 4 Overdose Deaths In 12 Hours
Lowell Fire Chief Jeffrey Winward said the department believes the overdoses resulted from a mix of heroin-fentanyl and cocaine-fentanyl.
View ArticleOnco-Anxiety: Wondering If Each Twinge Or Pang Means Cancer Is Back
A young psychiatrist recently diagnosed with cancer writes: "Every little sensation you have in your body could be the one that signifies disease recurrence or metastasis" -- you can't help but obsess.
View ArticleImmune-Boosting Gel Could Stem Spread Of Cancer After Surgery, Mouse Study...
Among more than 100 mice with breast cancer, the researchers say, 65 percent showed a durable survival benefit, compared to just 10 percent of mice who got surgery alone.
View ArticleState Offers New Online Resources To Pregnant Women, New Moms Struggling With...
"Journey Project" features video tutorials from women who share their own stories of substance abuse, recovery information, and support groups.
View ArticleFentanyl-Laced Cocaine Could Be 'Next Wave' Of Opioid Crisis, Some Warn
The powerful opioid that has multiplied deaths among heroin users is showing up in cocaine, threatening to expand the scope of the drug addiction epidemic.
View ArticleDesign Flaws In Electronic Health Records Can Harm Patients, Study Finds
The researchers looked at how"usability issues" -- design problems ranging from data entry and display to defaults and drug orders -- can and do hurt patients.
View Article'Faith Healing' And Chest Pain: Heart Controversy Points Up Confounding Power...
Amid major controversy over whether patients with "stable angina" should be treated with stents, the placebo-like effect of reassurance could affect the definitive research that's badly needed.
View ArticleThousands Of Cambridge Health Alliance Patients' Financial Information...
The Boston Globe reports Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) informed 2,500 people that their private billing information was accessed by a third party.
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