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Teen pregnancy linked to risk of earlier death in adulthood, study finds

A large study in Canada reports another disturbing finding: Women who were pregnant as teenagers are more likely to die before their 31st birthday.

CVS pharmacy at South Boston health center to close

The company has been shutting down hundreds of stores across the country because of falling profit margins.

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Can Mass. General and Brigham work as one? We’re going to find out.

The scale of Dr. Anne Klibanski’s integration proposal is sweeping and its implications are profound.

Salem Hospital physicians vote overwhelmingly to unionize

They are part of a growing number of doctors organizing amid concerns that the health care industry is becoming increasingly more corporate.

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Ten great New England spas for hydrotherapy, massage, and more

After the winter, don’t you deserve to indulge yourself a little?

‘Nothing else that has had this effect’: New treatment shrinks brain tumors in small clinical trial at Mass. General

The treatment involved a new form of CAR-T cell therapy, which extracts and reprograms a patient’s immune cells to help fight the disease.

Olivia Munn reveals she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy

“I’m lucky. We caught it with enough time that I had options," the 43-year-old actor posted on Instagram Wednesday with photos and a video of her being treated.

Mass. to expand drug treatment courts for parents struggling with addiction

The specialty courts help prevent child removals and will open in seven more cities statewide.