Proposed Beth Israel-Lahey Merger Includes 13 Hospitals
The proposed merger became formal Thursday with the signing of a definitive agreement and a filing with the state's Health Policy Commission.
View ArticleWho's In, Who's Left Out With The Latest Senate Health Care Bill
Tax breaks for the wealthy would be trimmed, and people would get the option to buy bare-bones plans. But big cuts in Medicaid and changes to coverage for pre-existing conditions remain.
View ArticleAs Opioid Epidemic Rages, Governors Hope To Find Solutions Together For...
Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker emphasized the need to reduce the shame associated with addiction.
View ArticleAt Annual Meeting, Nation's Governors Discuss Senate's Revised Health Care Bill
Thirty of the nation's 50 governors are gathering in Providence, Rhode Island for the summer meetings of the National Governors Association, and health care is a hot topic among the chief executives.
View ArticleAs Ticks And Lyme Disease Spread, Prevention Efforts Limited To 'Shoestring'
As ticks and the illnesses they carry continue to spread, even the most heroic efforts to educate the public are clearly not enough to stem tick-borne diseases.
View ArticleScience Shortfall: Why Don't We Know How Best To Fight Ticks And Lyme Disease?
Good science takes strong funding, and researchers just don't have the money to do the high-quality studies needed to answer some of the most important ecological questions even as ticks and their...
View ArticleLatest Idea In The Battle Against Opioid Addiction: A 'Soup To Nuts' Recovery...
Two groups representing South End residents and businesses are proposing creating an addiction treatment and research campus at Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where patients dealing with...
View ArticleUnion Nurses Are Back At Work At Tufts Medical Center
The nurses staged a one-day strike, and then were locked out by the hospital for four days.
View ArticleMap: Where Lyme Disease Is Worsening In Mass.
Lyme disease is a big -- and growing -- problem in Massachusetts. Here's a county-by-county look.
View ArticleLatest Study: No, Treadmill Desks Don't Make You Dumber
Some past research has suggested there may be a cognitive price to walking while working, but a new study finds no impairment in executive function.
View ArticleCaution, Not Relief, In Mass. After Senate GOP Leaders Drop Health Care Bill
Uncertainty about what’s next on Capitol Hill is stoking anxiety for many who work in or depend on health care, including those in Massachusetts.
View ArticleGov. Baker, If You Met My Immigrant Patients, You'd Support 'Safe Communities...
A primary care doctor describes the fear she sees among her immigrant patients and wishes the governor could see it as well, in hopes it would persuade him to support a "sanctuary state" bill.
View ArticleGlioblastoma Is A Grim Diagnosis, But There Are Some Signs Of Hope
Karen Weintraub joins All Things Considered to talk about the latest science in fighting glioblastoma.
View ArticleOur Dogs Can Get Lyme Vaccines And We (Still) Can't. When Might We?
New vaccines or antibodies against Lyme disease in humans won't be available for several years at best, but at least there are projects underway, including clinical trials that began this year.
View ArticleAgainst Medical Advice: Sometimes, When Patients Defy Accepted Wisdom, So...
Keeping the whole patient in view, including the social challenges they'll return to after their short stint in a hospital, is as much a part of medical decision-making as diagnosis and prescription.
View ArticleAnalyst: MassHealth Enrollment Has Stabilized, So Baker's Proposals May Not...
The retired president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says Gov. Charlie Baker "has put forward probably the most sweeping changes in Medicaid or MassHealth in the 50 years of its existence,"...
View ArticleMedical Ethics: In The Charlie Gard Case, Listen To The Nurses
In the tragic case of Charlie Gard, the British baby with brain damage whose fate pitted doctors against parents, a medical ethicist would give special consideration to his nurses.
View ArticleHouse Rejects Gov. Baker's MassHealth Reforms
Baker wanted to move an estimated 140,000 non-disabled people off MassHealth and into subsidized insurance provided through the state's Health Connector.
View Article'Mosaic' HIV Vaccine Looks Good In Early Trial, Boston Researcher Tells AIDS...
It's a "mosaic" vaccine that tries to cover the many varieties of HIV around the globe by computer-generating synthetic HIV sequences -- and it could be ready for a big clinical trial in Africa this...
View ArticleEarly, Unofficial Doctor's Office Data Supports Prediction Of Heavy Lyme...
Overall doctors are diagnosing about 15 percent more Lyme disease cases than they did last year, according to athenahealth -- with a lot of geographical variation.
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