Go In Or Call In? Here's Some Basic Guidance For Routine Health Care During...
Now that your doctor is booking non-urgent visits again, when should you see someone in person, and when is a phone or video chat sufficient? We asked a range of physicians to provide guidance on some...
View ArticleLocal College Grad's Passion For Health Care Leads To Role In COVID-19 Clinic
Isabella Texeira, a 22-year-old Clark University grad, shares her perspective as a cleaner in a coronavirus clinic.
View ArticleA Hospice Nurse Answers The Call To Care For Terminally Ill Coronavirus Patients
Molly Polansky is a hospice nurse at Good Shepherd Community Care in Newton who answered the call to care for COVID-positive hospice patients.
View Article'It’s A Risk We Have To Take': Protesters Make Efforts To Reduce The Threat...
Nearly all of the demonstrators wore masks or a face covering – a new necessity in protesting during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re all aware of the danger of coronavirus that lurks in large crowds,...
View ArticleNurses Renew Calls To Stop Cleaning, Reusing N95 Masks
A new slate of tests by Mass General Brigham on the cleaning and reuse of N95 respirator masks has not eased the concerns of nursing associations, which renewed their calls Tuesday to stop the practice.
View ArticleMosquito Season Has Come Again, And Health Experts Say EEE Is Likely To...
EEE can cause devastating brain damage and kills over a third of those who contract it. There were twelve cases and six deaths from EEE last fall, the greatest number of cases in the state since the...
View Article¿Ir Al Médico O Llamar? Aquí Te Presentamos Una Guía Básica Para Cuidados De...
El temor al COVID-19 ha hecho que muchas personas no asistan a las salas de emergencia aún teniendo dolores de pecho peligrosos, vómitos constantes o entumecimientos que pudieran señalar un derrame...
View ArticleMass General Brigham Imposes Pay Cuts, Freezes Wages And Benefits As Pandemic...
Mass General Brigham, formerly Partners, is joining the long list of health care systems cutting pay and benefits to address major losses during the coronavirus pandemic. MGB says it lost $800 million...
View ArticleInside Boston Hospitals, A Reckoning With Racism
Residents at Brigham and Women's, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center are circulating petitions with specific requests. They include: providing equal care and equal access to care...
View ArticleInfectious Disease Expert Weighs In On The State's Latest Phase Of Reopening
Massachusetts restaurants can resume indoor dining today for the first time in months, as rates of COVID-19 infection continued trending downward over the weekend.
View Article'Invisible Wounds': Front-Line Health Workers Face Recovery Period That Could...
Some compare front-line medical staffers to soldiers coming off of a tough tour of duty, and say they may find psychological symptoms — from anxiety to depression to conflict — emerging as they now...
View ArticleInstagram Founders' Website: Mass. Has Lowest COVID-19 Transmission Rate In...
The current Rt for the coronavirus in Massachusetts — a measure of a virus's average transmission rate at a given point in time — is estimated at 0.67, according to the website Rt.live, comfortably...
View ArticleAvoiding Doctor's Visits Has Dire Consequences For Patients With Heart Disease
WBUR’s Angus Chen joins Morning Edition to report.
View ArticleOn Being Gay In Medicine: After The Supreme Court Victory, Still Work To Be Done
The founding dean of the new Kaiser Permanente medical school writes that while there has been great progress on LGBTQ acceptance in medicine, including a recent Supreme Court ruling, challenges remain.
View ArticleAgeism Leaves Older Patients Out Of Important Clinical Trials For COVID-19,...
Dr. Sharon Inouye, a geriatrician with Harvard Medical School and Hebrew SeniorLife, joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about ageism in COVID-19 treatments.
View ArticleAG Settles With Andover Pharmacy Over Illegal Opioid Prescribing
The allegations involve Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) in Andover, which handles prescriptions for workers injured on the job who have filed workers' compensation claims.
View ArticleBaker Announces 12 Reforms After Scathing Report On Holyoke Soldiers' Home
Reforms include changes to board of trustees and staffing, as well as new capital and infrastructure improvements
View ArticleBrigham Nurses Raise Shuttle Safety Concerns
While Mass General Brigham says it is strictly enforcing safety measures on shuttles, the Mass. Nurses Association asserts that shuttles are occupied at levels "significantly outside" accepted social...
View ArticleWhat We Know — And What We Don’t — About 'Asymptomatic COVID-19'
Much remains unclear about coronavirus cases that never involve symptoms, but they appear to represent at least 15% of cases, possibly far more, and to be potentially contagious, an infectious disease...
View ArticleThe Other Face Mask Fight: Are They Our Very Best Defense Against Coronavirus?
Evidence continues to mount that face masks are especially good defenses against coronavirus outbreaks -- if enough people wear them. But a debate is heating up in the science world about whether they...
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