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A Georgia graduate student’s horrific experience with flesh-eating bacteria may have left people worried, but these types of infections aren’t common.
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Researchers are trying to make sense of our darker impulses, and may just help save us from ourselves.
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A recent study found a very modest association between drinking coffee and a longer lifespan. But don’t change your coffee consumption based on these findings.
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A rampant prescription, a hidden perilFederal data obtained by the Globe show many nursing homes make heavy use of antipsychotic drugs to pacify residents.
The law’s loophole that allows nursing homes to advertise specialized care units, even though workers may have no training for such residents, is one step closer to being closed.
Three US senators are ratcheting up a campaign to slash the misuse of powerful sedatives in the nation’s nursing homes.
The fastest growing cancer cells gorge themselves on a particular nutrient called glycine, a team of Boston-area scientists has reported.
Dozens of Greater Boston students experienced head injuries while playing ice hockey and basketball this past winter, a survey found.
Here you will find coverage of the law’s provisions, the debate that led to its enactment, Romney’s role in its passage, and what’s happened in Massachusetts since the law passed.
With the help of Boston scientists, one family turned the unthinkable into a future ruled by hope.
A team led by Rhode Island scientists revealed that two patients had been able to use their minds to control a robotic hand.
Verastem is one of the first biotech start-ups in years to take its shares public before its drugs entered clinical trials.
Boston is Health Nut, USA. As symptoms of exercise obsession go, the Boston Marathon is just the beginning.
Recent studies show that a large percentage of patients who are on cardiac monitors do not need to be — an overuse of technology that contributes to alarm fatigue.
Dr. Jordan Smoller, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has written a book called “The Other Side of Normal.”
A private cargo rocket blasted off in Florida on a mission to become the first commercial craft to dock at the International Space Station.
