New Hampshire To Host Forums On New Opioid Treatment System
Under "The Doorway-NH" system, hospitals and others work with local providers to ensure that help is less than an hour away anywhere in the state.
View ArticleNow Mandated To Offer Meds For Opioid Addiction In The ER, Mass. Hospitals...
A 2018 state law requires roughly 80 hospitals and satellite emergency rooms to offer patients addicted to opioids a medication to help treat their disease. A handful do. For most, this is a new...
View ArticleThe Flu Is Spiking In Mass. Here's What To Know About What Looks To Be...
Cases of flu are spiking dramatically in Massachusetts, with a different dominant strain from last year.
View ArticleStudy Shows Spending For Drug Marketing Skyrocketed Over Past 2 Decades
The study found that spending on medical marketing skyrocketed from $17.7 billion in 1997 to $29.9 billion in 2016.
View ArticleMassMutual Offering More Benefits To Attract More Diverse Workforce
The life insurance giant MassMutual is expanding its benefits program as a recruiting tool to attract new workers.
View ArticleBoston, Cambridge Mayors Will Tour Supervised Injection Facilities In Canada
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says he's gone "from a hard no on safe injection sites to, am I in the right place on that?"
View ArticleStudy: Bias Drops Dramatically For Sexual Orientation And Race — But Not Weight
A Harvard study analyzing millions of online tests for "implicit bias" finds a striking drop in anti-gay attitudes and a drop in racism as well, but a rise in bias based on body weight.
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Using Naloxone
You’ve seen the public health campaigns about the opioid overdose reversal drug. Now what?
View ArticleMass. AG Claims Family Behind Purdue Pharma Created 'A Blizzard Of Dangerous...
New court documents attempt to lay out a clear chain of command that implicates Sackler family members, as well as Purdue board members or execs, in the opioid epidemic.
View ArticleHealey Complaint Seeks Damages From Purdue Pharma
David Schumacher, former deputy chief of the healthcare fraud unit for the U.S. Attorney's office in Massachusetts, joined Morning Edition to talk more about Attorney General Maura Healey's complaint...
View ArticleBoston Children's Hospital Launches Campaign To Promote HelpSteps App
Dr. Eric Fleegler, creator of the HelpSteps app, joined Morning Edition, to discuss how the app bridges the gap between patients and the help they need.
View ArticleListening To Patients: Living With Terminal Cancer
When Chris Davie learned that a brain tumor would leave him just months left to live, he set out to record his story, and leave a message for his two young children.
View ArticleThe Mass. Ties In Healey's Complaint Blasting The Sackler Family And Purdue...
The attorney general's complaint outlines Purdue Pharma's work with local institutions and some of the defendants' local ties.
View ArticleBurnout Among Doctors Is A Public Health Crisis, Report Says
A 2018 survey found that 78 percent of physicians reported feeling burned out at least sometimes.
View ArticleNew Bill Would Eliminate Parental Consent Laws For Minors Seeking Abortion In...
In Massachusetts, a pregnant minor who wants to get an abortion needs a parent's or judge's permission. A new bill seeks to change that.
View ArticleThink You're Allergic To Penicillin? Maybe Not, Specialists Say, And That's...
If you think you're allergic to penicillin but you're not, you may miss out on the best antibiotic to treat and prevent infection for no good reason, say specialists who advocate for more allergy...
View ArticleStudy Links More Marketing Of Opioids To More Overdose Deaths
The lead researcher says the pharmaceutical marketing influence is most powerful when frequent but subtle, as with free meals.
View Article2 Mass. Mayors Describe 'Eye-Opening' Visits To Canadian Clinics That...
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern described their impressions of supervised injection facilities operating in Canada.
View ArticleMGH Proposes $1 Billion Expansion With New Building
The major addition would add 1 million square feet and hundreds of single-bed patient rooms to the hospital's downtown campus.
View ArticleBaker Outlines Steps To Lower Medicaid Drug Prices
The governor's plan would save the state at least $80 million, he says.
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