Reporter's Notebook: Moscow Déjà Vu As Grandmas Join March In Boston
I saw grandmothers on the march before in Russia in 1991. And now I'm seeing them again.
View ArticleOpinion: Study Finds Obamacare First Year Brought Coverage To 4 Million...
Among the sickest Americans, the first year of Obamacare brought coverage for 4 million, but 12 million continued to lack insurance, and the racial gaps remained huge.
View ArticleCall It Obamacare Or The Trump Act, I Just Want My Patients To Be Able To Get...
"Universal care – health care that is accessible and affordable for everyone – is good for our national soul. It is the central hallmark of a civil and civilized society."
View ArticleBaker's Health Price Cap Plan May Be Seen As A Hybrid Between A Free And...
The governor's budget attempts to tackle costs associated with a shift in residents switching from employer health coverage to MassHealth.
View ArticleOpinion: Trump's Reinstated ‘Global Gag Rule’ On Abortion Is Cruelest To The...
Pregnancy is far more dangerous in poor countries, and that's what makes the restored “global gag rule” so cruel, writes the author, who has seen many new mothers in poor countries die.
View ArticleHealth Officials Report Mysterious Cluster Of Amnesia In Mass. Drug Users
Over four years, 14 patients were seen at Massachusetts hospitals with an uncommon amnesia that is like severe short-term memory loss, and changes to a key brain memory center. Thirteen also had a...
View ArticleWhy I'm Boycotting The Super Bowl: The NFL's Backward Attitude Toward Medical...
The NFL shouldn't punish its players for seeking non-opioid alternatives -- like marijuana -- to manage their pain, writes the mother of a son with Crohn's disease whose condition has been helped by...
View ArticleFrom The War On Cancer To The Moonshot: 'What's Different Now Is Everything'
Although there’s no “cure” around the corner, the prospects for tomorrow’s cancer patients are looking significantly brighter.
View Article‘It’s Not An Even Playing Field’: How Financial Instability Takes A Toll On...
In a time of dramatic advances in cancer research and treatment, financial instability can still undermine results.
View ArticleHow Researchers Are Putting The Body's Own Army To Work To Fight Cancer
Researchers are increasingly pinning their hopes on a new treatment strategy: using the immune system to hunt down and kill cancer cells wherever they are in the body.
View ArticleWhat If We Really Knew Where To Get The Best Cancer Care: The Prostate As...
While scientists press for breakthroughs in cancer treatments, patients still have no idea which doctors or hospitals deliver the best care.
View ArticleFantasy No Longer: Blood Biopsies Detect Tumor DNA, Could Catch Cancer Earlier
"It seems so far-fetched," one researcher says, "that out of a small tube of blood you could have a lens into a tumor somewhere else in the body." But it's possible.
View ArticleFrom The 'Lowest Of Lows' To The 'Highest Of Highs': Navigating A New Reality...
Some new cancer treatments can have miraculous results for some patients. But because the long-term prognosis with these new medications is still not clear, even after going into remission patients...
View ArticleAs Cancer Drugs' Prices Skyrocket, Experts Worry About Burden On Patients,...
New cancer drugs are being approved at a fast pace -- and new research shows that these drugs now carry price tags between $120,000 to $170,000, reporter Richard Knox explains.
View ArticleWhat Questions Do You Have About Cancer Research, Treatment Or Care?
As part of our This Moment In Cancer series, we're looking the dramatic advances in cancer care as well as continued challenges. What questions do you have about cancer that you'd like us to...
View ArticleBeth Israel And Lahey Health Again Propose Merger
It's the fourth time in at least six years that word has surfaced of a deal between these two major systems. It could be the largest hospital merger in Massachusetts since the mid-1990s.
View ArticleConcerns That Rosy Direct-To-Consumer Ads Hype Cancer Drugs To Vulnerable...
An oncologist worries that rosy ads for new cancer drugs could raise the hopes of very vulnerable patients unrealistically.
View ArticleOpinion: For The Sake Of Public Health, The President Must Embrace The World
B.U. School of Public Health dean: President Trump's isolationist policy builds walls and places the U.S. in opposition to the trend of international cooperation that has created a safer, healthier...
View ArticleIBM Uses Supercomputer Watson Technology To Track — And Fight — Cancer
The company recently started a five-year, $50 million partnership with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to study drug-resistant cancers.
View ArticleVenture Capital Firm Partner: 'There's No Better Time To Do Drug Discovery'...
Though drug discovery is "inherently risky," Dr. Bob Tepper says there have been many recent breakthroughs related to new cancer drugs.
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