Mastodons, Mammoths And More: DNA Shows Elephants And Their Ancestors Mixed...
Using powerful new techniques for analyzing DNA, researchers have sequenced not just the genes of modern elephants but of their extinct ancestors and relatives as well: mastodons, woolly mammoths and...
View ArticleState Reaches Settlement With Care.com Over Its Caregiver Background Checks
Waltham-based Care.com will pay nearly $500,000 to settle allegations that it misled customers about its background check system.
View ArticleBill Aiming To Better Protect Privacy Of Patients On Others' Insurance Plans...
The House on Wednesday took a step supporters said would improve patient privacy, voting 139-14 to pass a bill that would require insurers to send explanation of benefit forms directly to adult...
View ArticleThe Mass. Medicaid Program Is Changing How It Delivers Health Care
The state is moving more than 800,000 MassHealth patients to what are called accountable care organizations.
View ArticleThe State's Health Secretary On What The MassHealth Restructuring Means
Most MassHealth members will join one of 17 so-called accountable care organizations that will manage all of the members' health needs.
View ArticleCollection Of Brains From People With Eating Disorders To Be Launched At Harvard
Harvard will help establish a brain bank to study the donated brains of people who suffered from eating disorders.
View ArticleVanishing Bone: The Medical Mystery That Could Have Derailed Millions Of Hip...
Dr. William H. Harris, now 90, tells a twist-filled backstory of disaster averted in his new book about a mysterious disease that ate bone.
View ArticleMGH 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 Patient Records To Catch Patients Who Bounce From One...
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.
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