Mistreatment persists at Bridgewater State Hospital, report says
The report, from the Disability Law Center, found patients at Bridgewater State Hospital were subjected to illegally forced medication injections, violence from staff, lack of medical care, inappropriate medication for...
Boston launches colon cancer awareness campaign focused on predominantly Black communities
The Boston Public Health Commission launched a campaign this week aimed at increasing awareness about colon cancer screening and the ways to combat one of the few known preventable cancers....
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Mar 28, 2024In distress, Steward proposes sale of doctors group to Optum
The deal, which will be reviewed by state regulators, is part of Steward's plan to climb out of a financial hole that has shaken the Massachusetts health care industry. The...
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Mar 27, 2024Cases settled: 2 ex-officials of Holyoke veterans home where 76 died in pandemic avoid jail time
Two former officials of a veterans home in Massachusetts where at least 76 people died in one of the nation's worst COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility settled their...
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Mar 26, 2024Citing Steward Health, lawmakers take aim at private equity in health care
The hearing about private investments in health care focused primarily on the financial challenges facing Steward Health Care, one of the nation's largest private, for-profit hospital chains, and the uncertain...
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Mar 26, 2024In a first, doctors at Mass General transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient
Doctors say the patient, a 62-year-old-man is recovering well from the surgery. It is seen as a milestone and a potential solution to the worldwide shortage of human organs for...
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How biotech companies are using AI to design drugs
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies – and their investors – are betting the newest generation of artificial intelligence can help unleash novel treatments for everything from COVID to cancer and chronic...
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Mar 19, 2024A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in early test at MGH
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients....
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Mar 14, 2024Mistreatment persists at Bridgewater State Hospital, report says
The report, from the Disability Law Center, found patients at Bridgewater State Hospital were subjected to illegally forced medication injections, violence from staff, lack of medical care, inappropriate medication for...
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Mar 13, 2024Mass General, Brigham and Women's hospitals promise closer collaboration
Two of Boston’s biggest and most prominent academic medical centers on Wednesday promised to work more closely together, combining clinical departments in what they’re describing as an effort to improve...
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Mar 13, 2024Health care costs in Mass. rose sharply again in 2022
CHIA's annual report estimated total health care spending in Massachusetts at $71.7 billion in 2022. Total health care spending was up $3.9 billion (up 5.8% on a per capita basis)...
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Mar 13, 20244 years after the COVID emergency, what the coronavirus means today
The social distancing era is over, the five-day isolation rule is no more, and millions have received COVID vaccines. But experts say the coronavirus is still with us.
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Mar 12, 2024Mass. hospitals feeling fiscal pinch from Change Healthcare cyber breach
The debilitating cyberattack on Change Healthcare last month is costing the Massachusetts health care system about $24 million a day, and care providers are looking to health insurers for financial...
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Mar 12, 2024Distressed Steward Health may have a buyer for St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River
Southcoast Health has become the first Massachusetts health care provider to express interest in acquiring a hospital from Steward Health Care, the troubled for-profit company looking to exit the state.
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Mar 8, 2024Sen. Warren cautions seniors about Medicare Advantage plans
An estimated 31 million Americans are covered by the plans nationally, including about 1.4 million people in Massachusetts.
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Mar 5, 2024What we know — and don't know — about the benefits of vitamin D
With the end of winter around the corner, I figured this might be a moment when people might have vitamin D on the mind. So I called Brigham and Women’s...
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Mar 5, 2024Reporter's notebook: How health care issues are shaping the 2024 presidential primaries
WBUR Senior Political Reporter Anthony Brooks shares how health care issues — from abortion and reproductive health to questions about the mental acuity of Joe Biden and Donald Trump —...
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Feb 28, 2024Steward hospital chain's financial woes could spread to other states
Steward operates more than 30 hospitals nationwide, and its finances are deeply entangled with one of the largest owners of hospital real estate in the country, raising questions about how...
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Feb 23, 2024Steward Health Care has kept financial information secret for years. Now, it faces a demand
Massachusetts requires all hospital systems to disclose detailed financial statements every year. But almost a decade ago, Steward stopped complying with this rule, according to state officials. Steward failed to...
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02:47Feb 23, 2024Community behavioral health centers in Mass. see big demand for one-stop mental health care
The 26 centers, spread across Massachusetts, are part of a state initiative to increase access to mental health care.
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07:01Feb 22, 2024Financial update spells more uncertainty for Steward's Mass. hospitals
Steward Health Care's landlord, Medical Properties Trust (MPT), said Wednesday it has started a process to sell or find new tenants for facilities including those operated by the financially troubled...
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