Breaking: Patriot Ledger Reports Steward To Buy Quincy Medical Center
The Patriot Ledger’s Jack Encarnacao reports here: A for-profit investment group that recently purchased eight hospitals in Massachusetts has reached a deal to take over the struggling Quincy Medical...
View ArticleNurses Vs. Steward: Walk-Out At Quincy Medical Center Meeting
Sounds like a particularly stormy night in Quincy last night. The Patriot Ledger’s Jack Encarnacao reports here that a hearing at Quincy High School on Steward Healthcare System’s plan to buy the...
View ArticlePea-Sized Pill Delivers Insulin Shot From Inside The Stomach
Patients usually prefer oral treatment, and comply with it better, but many compounds, including insulin for diabetes, can't survive the harsh trip through the digestive system.
View ArticleWith New 'Telehealth' Benefit, MassHealth Lets Patients Get Therapy From...
The benefit is described as "an additional avenue" for patients to seek services such as outpatient counseling or prescriptions for medications that help blunt cravings for opioids.
View ArticleJudge Critical Of Mass. Mental Health Services For Children
The judge wrote the state has repeatedly violated its own standard of providing certain mental health treatment to seriously ill children on Medicaid within 14 days.
View ArticleIf A Doctor Calls Your Disease ‘Treatable,’ Beware. Here Are 10 Questions You...
Researchers have found doctors use the word "treatable" to mean that a treatment exists for a disease, but patients tend to think the word equates to a positive prognosis.
View ArticleMass. Issues Guidelines After Boston Nurse Was Denied Life Insurance For...
Massachusetts is advising life and disability insurers not to deny coverage to good Samaritans who carry the overdose-reversal drug naloxone.
View ArticleOpioid Overdoses Are Up, Deaths Are Down: The Latest From Massachusetts
The latest quarterly state data show 4 percent fewer fatalities in 2018 as compared to 2017. But, while the number of deaths dropped in 2018, overdose-related 911 calls increased.
View ArticleFormer Insys CEO says Founder Pushed Fentanyl Sales On Doctors
Aaron Leibowitz, who covers the Boston courts for Law360, joined Morning Edition to talk about the Insys trial.
View ArticleIn Boston Courtroom, Cancer Research Titans Clash Over Patents Likely Worth...
The battle over work that led to the Nobel Prize involves issues of scientific credit, honesty and reliability, one expert says, and "if you add money to the mix, it makes a particularly potent poison."
View ArticleJudge Rules Hernandez's Child Can't Sue NFL Over Brain Disease
Hernandez spent three years with the New England Patriots before his 2013 arrest on the first of three homicide charges. The Patriots terminated his $40 million contract, and he never returned to the...
View ArticleMassachusetts To Help Test Addiction Treatment Rating System
Massachusetts has agreed to participate in a new rating system that is being developed to measure the quality of addiction treatment programs.
View ArticleSome Insurers Deny Coverage To People Taking Drug To Prevent HIV
State health officials want to protect people who take drugs like PrEP to prevent transmission of HIV from being denied health insurance.
View ArticlePartners Names Klibanski As Interim President/CEO
With a one-year timeline to find a permanent CEO, Partners HealthCare on Monday named Dr. Anne Klibanski, its chief academic officer since 2012, as interim president and CEO.
View ArticleIn Tight-Knit Dorchester Neighborhood, Residents Try To Halt Sober House
With an opioid crisis underway, advocates say sober homes provide an important resource. But in areas like Meetinghouse Hill, neighbors say their community is being unfairly targeted as a site for the...
View Article3rd Child Flu Death Reported In Massachusetts
Public health officials in Massachusetts have confirmed a third pediatric flu death in the state this season.
View ArticleA Fierce Advocate For Improving Health Care Faces His Own Cancer Diagnosis
Rob Restuccia, who's led an effort to give patients a stronger voice in health care, is in hospice, after stopping treatment for pancreatic cancer.
View Article'Do I Still Need To Take This?' Why Doctors Should 'Deprescribe' Pills
Americans take a lot of pills, and some of them may not be necessary -- at least, not anymore. To avoid dangerous drug interactions, a group of VA doctors is pushing to trim patients' medication lists...
View ArticleSweeping Study Finds Overlapping Surgeries Generally Safe — With Exceptions
The Harvard-Stanford study looks at more than 60,000 surgeries and finds no higher risk of death or complications -- except among the sickest patients and in coronary bypass operations.
View ArticleMass. Panel Recommends One Or More Supervised Consumption Sites To Reduce...
A special commission will recommend the state pilot clinics where drug users can shoot up or inhale drugs, and be revived by medical staff if needed, because such clinics save lives, members said.
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