4 New Cases Of West Nile Diagnosed
The number of human cases of West Nile virus in Massachusetts this season more than doubled to seven and public health officials designated Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown and Newton as being at high...
View ArticleBaker Nursing Home Package Includes $140M Investment
Health and human services officials said the package will supplement changes announced in April to hold facilities to higher standards of care and infection control.
View ArticleSomerville Delays Plan To Open First Supervised Drug Use Clinic In Massachusetts
The city of Somerville says COVID has delayed efforts to establish the first medically supervised site for drug use in Massachusetts. Somerville had pledged to open a so-called supervised consumption...
View ArticleDon't Shout Yet: Drug To Regenerate Hearing Shows Early But Muted Promise In...
Research out of Woburn-based biotech company Frequency Therapeutics might allow people to regenerate their sense of hearing. Although there’s still years of work to go, researchers say preliminary data...
View ArticleNantucket Health Officials Look To Quell Virus Spread After Spike
Health officials say 14 people tested positive on the island last week, and the majority of them are cleaners, landscapers, carpenters or painters who travel to work together.
View ArticleHospitals Prepare For Vaccine Distribution, Despite Uncertainty Around Timing...
To help explain the planning, we spoke to Dr. Paul Biddinger, director of emergency preparedness for the Mass General-Brigham Hospital Network, who will oversee vaccine distribution when it comes.
View ArticleGet A Flu Shot Before The End Of October, Mass. Medical Society Urges
Massachusetts Medical Society president Dr. David Rosman called flu shots more important than ever in order to reduce the number of people hospitalized because of the flu while medical facilities deal...
View ArticleIn Wrentham, Uptick In Coronavirus Cases Tied To Cluster At Nursing Home
Town officials in Wrentham are attributing the uptick in new cases — 15 in the past two weeks — to a cluster at a nursing home.
View ArticleNantucket Weighs Additional Restrictions After Surge In COVID-19 Cases
With 30 new cases in the past 14 days, Nantucket has suddenly rocketed into the highest-risk category in the Department of Public Health's ranking of COVID-19 transmission risk levels.
View ArticleMIT, Harvard Researchers Say They're Close To A New Rapid COVID Test
Researchers say they have potentially developed a new, more convenient tests for the coronavirus that uses the genetic technology known as CRISPR and could produce results in less than an hour.
View ArticleStatewide Opioid Screening Day To Help People Assess Their Risk And Find...
The initiative aims to have people take part in anonymous online screenings for opioid use disorder, and if needed, seek help from one of dozens of participating institutions.
View ArticleMIT Professor Wins Top AI Award For Cancer, Drug Research
MIT's Regina Barzilay is a breast cancer survivor whose 2014 diagnosis led her to shift her AI work to creating systems for drug development and early cancer diagnosis.
View ArticleFree Mass. Virus Testing Extended Through October
Free testing through the "Stop the Spread" initiative is currently available in 18 communities: Brockton, Chelsea, Everett, Fall River, Framingham, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lynn, Marlborough, Methuen, New...
View ArticleToo Much Candy: Mass. Man Dies From Eating Bags Of Black Licorice
A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of whack and caused the 54-year-old...
View ArticleCOVID Outbreak At Brigham And Women's Hospital Grows To 28 Known Cases
The hospital in a statement late Thursday said to date, 98 employees had been tested, with 11 testing positive. Also, 50 patients had been tested, with eight positive.
View ArticleEarly Trial Results Show Promise For Johnson & Johnson And Beth Israel Vaccine
The company will recruit 60,000 participants to take part in the trial, making it the largest test of a coronavirus vaccine to date.
View ArticleHow To Navigate The 'New Normal' Of The Pandemic, According To Experts
The latest about living in the pandemic when the chances of getting the coronavirus are low… but not zero.
View ArticleWith The Coronavirus Creeping Back In Mass., Health Experts And Community...
Although there’s still more data that must be examined to understand the pandemic’s direction in Massachusetts, some health experts and advocates say Gov. Baker should take stronger action to stem a...
View ArticleList Of Mass. Communities At 'High Risk' For Coronavirus Swells To 23,...
The designation is made when a community has a rate at or above eight people per 100,000 infected, averaged over 14 days. In all, 23 Massachusetts municipalities are considered "high risk" for the...
View ArticleBoston Is Now Considered High Risk For COVID-19
Ten other communities were added to the high risk group, while three others were removed, raising the total to 23. At the same time, statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases have been creeping up.
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