An Infectious Disease Expert's Perspective As Mass. Enters Phase Two Of...
The governor's move to further reopen the Massachusetts economy comes amid a decline in average daily new COVID-19 cases of more than 80% since mid April. Yet the state is still averaging hundreds of...
View ArticleMassHealth Implements 90-Day Retroactivity
Under the new rules, anyone under 65 who applied for coverage after March 1 can request a coverage start date as early as the first day of the third calendar month before the month of application, but...
View ArticleAs Stores And Restaurants Reopen, Is It Hard To Decide What You Dare To Do?...
"This combination of uncertainty and high stakes is like the perfect storm of anxiety. So it's hard for all of us to make decisions," says Prof. Steven Woloshin about personal coronavirus risk...
View ArticleBaker Introduces New COVID-19 Data Collection Bill
One day after he signed a bill the Legislature sent him expanding COVID-19 reporting requirements, Gov. Charlie Baker filed a new data-collection proposal that he hopes will "put a finer point" on...
View ArticleGenetic Sleuthing Finds Many Sources, Mostly From Europe, For Coronavirus...
As the coronavirus leaps from person to person, it has a chance to mutate, creating unique genetic fingerprints that scientists can use to track the origins and spread of the outbreak in Massachusetts.
View ArticleOpioid Overdose Deaths Down Slightly In Mass.
The state Department of Public Health numbers show there were 467 confirmed and estimated opioid overdose deaths in the first quarter of this year -- almost 6% fewer deaths compared with the first...
View ArticleHHS Secretary Was Warned Of 'Crisis' At Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Earlier Than...
Emails and phone logs suggest HHS Secretary Marylou Sudders first learned about the problems before the Holyoke Mayor blew the whistle.
View ArticleClose, Sell, Consolidate? Tough Prognosis For Some Massachusetts Health Care...
In Massachusetts, 23% of primary care providers surveyed in late May and early June are considering closing their practices, according to preliminary results released by the state’s Health Policy...
View ArticleNursing Home Residents With Dementia Are More Likely To Die From COVID-19,...
Among those living in nursing homes, residents with dementia were 1.7 times more likely to die from COVID-19.
View Article'We Need More Housing': Pandemic Exacerbates Challenge Of Finding Housing For...
Trying to secure housing when you're homeless is rarely easy. The coronavirus pandemic has made it extra challenging.
View ArticleCancer Patient Prepares For Surgery As Coronavirus Restrictions Begin To Lift
WBUR's All Things Considered speaks with local cancer patient Jim Nauen and his wife Kim as Jim prepares for surgery now that coronavirus-related hospital restrictions are being lifted.
View Article'They Don’t Respect Our Job': Critical Nursing Home Workers Bear The Brunt Of...
Certified nursing assistants, or CNAs, provide some of the most critical care for nursing home residents. It also earns them the lowest wages and puts them at the greatest risk.
View ArticleBoston Activist Aubri Esters, Who Championed Safer Drug Use, Dies At 35
Aubri Esters co-founded a group in Massachusetts that campaigned for more treatment, safer drug use and supervised consumption sites.
View ArticleEpidemiologist On Mass. Reopening As Cases Trend Down
Dr. Cassandra Pierre is a professor at the Boston University School of Medicine and an epidemiologist and infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center. She joined WBUR's Morning Edition to...
View ArticleGo In Or Call In? Here's Some Basic Guidance For Routine Health Care During...
Now that your doctor is booking non-urgent visits again, when should you see someone in person, and when is a phone or video chat sufficient? We asked a range of physicians to provide guidance on some...
View ArticleLocal College Grad's Passion For Health Care Leads To Role In COVID-19 Clinic
Isabella Texeira, a 22-year-old Clark University grad, shares her perspective as a cleaner in a coronavirus clinic.
View ArticleA Hospice Nurse Answers The Call To Care For Terminally Ill Coronavirus Patients
Molly Polansky is a hospice nurse at Good Shepherd Community Care in Newton who answered the call to care for COVID-positive hospice patients.
View Article'It’s A Risk We Have To Take': Protesters Make Efforts To Reduce The Threat...
Nearly all of the demonstrators wore masks or a face covering – a new necessity in protesting during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re all aware of the danger of coronavirus that lurks in large crowds,...
View ArticleNurses Renew Calls To Stop Cleaning, Reusing N95 Masks
A new slate of tests by Mass General Brigham on the cleaning and reuse of N95 respirator masks has not eased the concerns of nursing associations, which renewed their calls Tuesday to stop the practice.
View ArticleMosquito Season Has Come Again, And Health Experts Say EEE Is Likely To...
EEE can cause devastating brain damage and kills over a third of those who contract it. There were twelve cases and six deaths from EEE last fall, the greatest number of cases in the state since the...
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