Study Finds Virtually Zero Benefit From Workplace Wellness Program In 1st Year
A major new study finds virtually zero benefits from a workplace wellness program in its first year: No lower health costs. No extra trips to the gym. No rise in productivity.
View ArticleWhy Apple's Move On Medical Records Marks A Tectonic Shift
It represents the first time a consumer platform in the hands of tens of millions daily will get data from the institutional health care system.
View ArticleGIC Votes To Restore 3 Health Insurers To Plan Options
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Tufts Health Plan and Fallon Community Health have all been reinstated as GIC insurance carriers.
View ArticleWhat 2 Driven Harvard Doctors Have Learned From Their Auto-immune Diseases
"Illness has cracked the veneer and forced us to redefine ourselves," say two doctors who describe how auto-immune disease has made them "rewrite their stories," and understand better what it means to...
View ArticleAmid Setbacks In Field, Boston Alzheimer's Researcher Forges Ahead With...
Despite worries among other researchers, Dr. Reisa Sperling is forging ahead with studying the treatment of amyloid plaques as a way to treat Alzheimer's disease.
View ArticleIs Amyloid, The Leading Hypothesis For Treating Alzheimer’s, Played Out? Not...
With the latest drug trial failure, it's easy to be pessimistic about ever finding a treatment for the devastating disease. But Dr. Reisa Sperling says the key is to start treatment earlier.
View ArticleHow One Parent Pushed Back When A School Encouraged Kids To Wear Patriots Gear
No, I did not send my four-year old to school in Patriots gear for "Super Bowl Spirit Day" on Friday. We, as a family, have made an active decision not to support, promote, or even expose our children...
View ArticleVitamin Reality Check: New Evidence-Based Overview On Who Should Be Taking What
Point one: Healthy food is better than pills. Point two: For certain subgroups, but not the general healthy population, there's enough evidence to support taking vitamins and minerals.
View ArticleStudy Finds Simple Test Strips Are Effective In Testing For Fentanyl
The study found the test strip, which is similar to urine or pregnancy test strips, was more accurate than two other drug testing devices that are often used by law enforcement.
View ArticleStudy: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Is Quite Common — And Most Children Aren't...
Of the 222 children study researchers found to have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, only two had been previously diagnosed.
View ArticleAs The Flu Spikes In Mass., Here Are 10 Things You May Not Know About It
We ask the state epidemiologist what might help reverse the direction of that scary red line.
View ArticleMIT Brain Study: Back-And-Forth Talk Key To Developing Kids' Verbal Skills
New MIT research finds that for children's brain development, parents don't just need to talk to their kids -- it's important to talk with them, in back-and-forth exchanges.
View ArticleOpioid Overdose Deaths Fell About 8 Percent In 2017 In Mass.
A new report from the state Department of Health shows preliminary data that overdose deaths from opioids declined slightly from 2016 to 2017.
View ArticleHow The Flu Kills: Top Warning Signs As Season Rages On
This flu season is starting to break records, and specialists advise patients to particularly watch out for serious changes in breathing, thinking and drinking.
View ArticleNew Research Shifts Thinking On Pregnancy Dilemma: Induce Labor At 39 Weeks?
Inducing labor at 39 weeks may help pregnant women avoid a C-section, a new study suggests, contradicting current wisdom and practice.
View ArticleFrom Longwood To Hollywood: Doctor's Film On Octogenarian Sex, Friendship And...
Doctor, researcher and now feature film-maker: A leading Boston expert on multiple sclerosis also wrote and directed the actor Martin Landau's final film.
View ArticleWhy Activism Is Good For Teens — And The Country
A Harvard child psychiatrist lays out how adolescent development plays into teen activism, and why it's so healthy for both the teen and society -- as he witnessed himself in the 1960s.
View ArticleLatest GIC Plan For Premiums 'Kind Of Unheard Of'
About half the more than 430,000 people covered by Group Insurance Commission plans will see a decrease in their premiums in fiscal 2019 and on average there will be no increase in premiums.
View ArticleWhen The Odds Of Surviving Cancer Are 50-50
"The only way for me to know if I will survive this cancer is to try," writes Dr. Adam Philip Stern. "Like roughly half of my patients, I may find out the hard way that I’m on the wrong side of this...
View ArticleState To Move Most Shattuck Hospital Care To South End
The Baker administration says moving the 260 patient beds at Shattuck Hospital to BMC’s campus will cost about half as much as renovating Shattuck would.
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