GOP Health Bill Would Hike Uninsured Rate In Massachusetts To 10.3 Percent,...
That's a nearly fourfold increase from the current uninsured rate of 2.8 percent.
View ArticlePsychiatrist: After Bombing, Thoughts For Parents Whose Teens Have Concert...
"Kids will continue to utilize concerts as a means of spreading their wings, and we would be wrong and ill-advised to clip those wings," Dr. Steve Schlozman writes.
View ArticleTip No. 1 For Taking Charge Of Mass. Health Care Costs: Avoid The ER
How can Massachusetts residents help keep down the cost of health care for all of us? A state agency is offering suggestions. Their first: Go to the emergency department less frequently.
View ArticleFor Hives, A New Study Suggests Many Can Skip The Steroids
One-fifth of us get hives at some point, and most of us may need only antihistamines to quell the itching, a study suggests.
View ArticleWhy I Encourage My Seriously Ill Patients To Imagine The Worst
We don't have to be afraid of being afraid, palliative care specialist Dr. Kathryn Kirkland writes. It could be helpful to preview a worst case scenario, as long as patients are able to decide when...
View ArticleWhat's Behind The Push In Scientific Research To Identify Dyslexia Early
Scientific research is pushing lawmakers in Massachusetts to reassess legislation around routine screening for dyslexia. Researcher Nadine Gaab explains why.
View ArticleFramingham Study: In Their 50s, But With The Healthy Arteries Of 20-Year-Olds
People who lead healthy lifestyles were 10 times as likely to have youthful arteries as those who didn't, and genes didn't seem to matter much, the study found.
View ArticleHow Charles Darwin Helped Me Cope With My Cancer
Understanding that each cancer cell was subject to the rules of natural selection helped me accept that neither my doctors nor I -- no matter how much fierceness or tranquility I could muster -- had...
View ArticlePatients Wait Hours, Days As Demand For ER Psychiatric Beds Grows
The increase in so-called "boarding" in hospital emergency rooms has prompted a push for a special hospital unit in Massachusetts for mental health patients.
View ArticleWhy Nearly Half My Patients Who Get Hurt On The Job Don’t Report It
Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested and detained Jose Flores, who retained legal counsel to seek workers' compensation after a construction accident, we will likely see even more...
View ArticleA Deadly First: Carfentanil, An Opioid 100 Times More Potent Than Fentanyl,...
That threat of accidental exposure from carfentanil -- a drug not approved for human consumption and used as a tranquilizer for large animals, like elephants -- has many police officers, firefighters...
View ArticleWith Cancer Diagnoses, Better-Off Americans May Get Too Much Attention
Death rates for four common cancers were nearly identical over 38 years in richer and poorer counties, even though the rate of cancer diagnosis was much higher among the more affluent.
View ArticleIn Long Fight Over School Chocolate Milk, Perhaps A Whole New Flavor
"We shouldn't be offering sugared milk, just like we don't offer candy apples in schools," argues pediatrician Dr. Diane Dooley. Others argue that kids won't drink unflavored low-fat milk, and so lose...
View ArticleWaltham Company's Lobbying Effort For Its Drug Used To Treat Opioid Addiction...
An NPR investigation has found that Alkermes lobbied in several states for legislation promoting its drug Vivitrol, while also pushing for stricter regulations on competing addiction treatments.
View ArticleStudy: The Neurons To Blame When You Turn Into A Food Zombie
"This shows specific pathways that control how much someone is going to react to food, and so the idea that it's willpower and you can shut it off at will -- it's much more complicated than that."
View ArticleAMA Endorses Trying Supervised Injection Facilities
The largest body of physicians in the U.S. is backing one of the most controversial proposals for curbing the country's opioid epidemic.
View ArticleBaker And 6 Other Governors Criticize House GOP Health Overhaul
The governors said they oppose the bill the House narrowly passed last month, citing its deep cuts to Medicaid.
View ArticleWhat My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About The Future Of AI In Health Care
Dr. Isaac Kohane devises a plan to manage his mother's heart dysfunction, and along the way is persuaded that spectacular gains in artificial intelligence could bode far better for our health than...
View ArticleHarsh Reception For Supervised Drug Injection In Boston
Supporters urged council members to back opening a supervised injection facility in Boston. But, the proposal received pushback with some councilors arguing that SIFs enable people to do illicit drugs.
View ArticleBaker Submits Compromise Proposal For Employers To Help Pay For Rising Health...
The plan calls for a two-tiered assessment on companies, with the bulk of the burden falling on employers with non-disabled workers who enroll in MassHealth.
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