Strategy Flags Almost All Genetic Heart Disease Patients Who'll Face Sudden...
A Tufts Medical Center study finds a prediction strategy very accurate at pinpointing which patients needed a lifelong implanted device to shock their heart back into rhythm if it .
View ArticleFDA Approves Drug With Record-Breaking List Price: $2.1 Million
The approval of Zolgensma, made by Novartis, adds a new layer to a debate raging in the United States and other countries: What is a fair price for a treatment that can save something priceless, a...
View ArticleHow A Federal Move To Limit Transgender Protections Would Affect Patients In...
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that says federal law does not protect transgender patients from discrimination in a hospital, clinic or other health care setting.
View ArticleMass. Health Officials Warn Of Measles Exposure In Quincy And Weymouth
Public health officials in Massachusetts say a child has tested positive for measles after visiting a number of locations in the Boston area that could have resulted in exposure to other people.
View ArticleWoman Convicted Of Defrauding Medicaid For $2.5 Million Gets Jail Time
A former teacher who owned a home health agency has been sentenced to serve 18 months in jail.
View ArticleWorkforce Woes Creating Crisis In State's Human Services, Advocates Tell...
More than a dozen bills were before a Beacon Hill committee for a hearing Tuesday, but a common theme ran through many of them: addressing the plight of service employees.
View Article10,000 Steps A Day? Study In Older Women Suggests 7,500 Is Just As Good For...
More steps correlate with longer life, but the study in older women finds the effect levels off after 7,500 steps.
View ArticleHealey Sues E-Cigarette Company, Alleging It Marketed To Minors
“Eonsmoke took a page out of the Big Tobacco playbook by peddling nicotine to young people on social media,” Maura Healey said.
View ArticleStill Deadly, But Alex Trebek's 'Near-Remission' Reflects Recent Progress On...
Specialists say that over the last few years, powerful new chemotherapy and a deeper understanding of the disease's biology have led to treatments that help pancreatic cancer patients live longer and...
View ArticleBill Would Reward Firms That Don't Alter Models' Images
Companies that refuse to digitally alter the skin tone and body size of advertising models would get a financial boost under the bill filed by Massachusetts lawmakers.
View ArticlePatients Who Want To Use Suboxone For Addiction Can Have Trouble Getting It,...
Researchers posing as patients called prescribers who say they offer Suboxone treatment. Half said they weren't taking new Medicaid patients.
View ArticleMass. Sees 2nd Measles Case This Year. Now There's A Bill To Remove Religious...
Forty-six states, including Massachusetts, allow religious exemptions, and 15 allow philosophical exemptions for personal or moral beliefs.
View ArticlePrescription: More Broccoli, Cut Down On Carbs. How Some Doctors Are Looking...
A McLean Hospital doctor asks patients with obesity and mental illness to try the ketogenic diet. It's part of a growing trend of doctors prescribing certain foods -- or telling patients to eliminate...
View ArticleCVS Announces Further Expansion Into Health Care Services
The Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based company plans to add dietitians, medical equipment and space for the occasional yoga class to 1,500 stores over the next few years.
View ArticleSenate To Press Opioid Measures In Budget Talks
Senate negotiators on a six-member conference committee will try to convince their House colleagues to agree to a $5 million program aimed at reducing the death toll from the opioid epidemic.
View ArticlePartners Backs Out Of Rhode Island Expansion At Governor's Request, For Now
Partners HealthCare says it is withdrawing efforts to acquire Care New England, the second largest health care network in Rhode Island.
View ArticleHarvard Study: Supplements For Energy, Weight Loss, Muscle-Building Carry...
The hundreds of reports of hospitalization, ER visits and even death among young people are likely just "the tip of the iceberg," a researcher says.
View ArticleWhat Questions Do You Have About Drug Prices?
WBUR is developing a series about the cost of prescription drugs, and how to make this system work better for patients and their doctors. And we'd like to know your questions.
View ArticleWork Stops At Construction Sites As Industry Calls Attention To Drug...
"No one talks about this, but it permeates our industry," said Robert Petrucelli, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts, a trade group that organized brief, opioid-focused talks...
View ArticleOpioid Maker Agrees To Pay $225M To Settle Federal Probes
The settlement stems from criminal and civil probes into Insys Therapeutics Inc.'s scheme to pay doctors in exchange for prescriptions of the drug meant for cancer patients with severe pain.
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