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If you want to attend school in Massachusetts — public or private — you have to prove you're vaccinated, unless you’ve got a medical excuse or claim a religious exemption.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit against TikTok Inc., claiming that the social media platform is intentionally designed to…
A human recently contracted Eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced this past weekend. The person who…
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health informed regional health officials that West Nile virus was found last week in a mosquito sample…
The company that operates Carney Hospital in Dorchester announced it plans to close it by August 31. Steward Health, which is in…
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is launching a $1 million "public awareness campaign" against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers,…
With summer approaching, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is warning people to try to stay safe against mosquito bites. Mosquitos in…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has announced increased coverage for gender transitioning. The company says it is "one of the…
A retail food market located in Malden has recently reached a settlement agreement with the government following allegations of violating federal laws…
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is in Massachusetts. The virus has been detected in Essex County, according to a press release from the…
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Malden) says the American health care industry emits too much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Markey…
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is warning licensed medical practitioners, hospitals, and clinics against what it calls "deceptive practices"…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joined five other Democratic governors in calling for the federal government to require that all forms of contraception…
A lawsuit filed on behalf of patients claims that Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital exposed hundreds of patients to HIV or hepatitis,…
Massachusetts state officials are allowing pharmacists to dispense contraceptive pills and contraceptive patches without a doctor's prescription, effective immediately. The…
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield has brain cancer and his wife Stacey has pancreatic cancer. Wakefield's former teammate…
Suicides ticked upward in Massachusetts last year; 626 people died by suicide in the Bay State in 2022, according to preliminary data…
Lingering effects of a fire in the sub-basement of the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday, July 18 led state legislators to…
The Boston Globe published two opposing positions on doctor-assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients on Friday, July 7, with an open…
A non-profit organization began offering abortion pills Monday, July 3 at seven facilities in Eastern Massachusetts with $700,000 in new…
Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey has proposed a bill to provide funding to study the barriers to "gender-affirming care.…
The Maine Senate voted to ban flavored tobacco this week. The state Senate voted 18-16 in favor of the bill (LD…
Disability rights advocates protested the use of electric skin shocks to treat autism outside the Massachusetts State House last week. The groups,…
Two Massachusetts Democratic state representatives are asking the state's public health agency to keep requiring people to wear masks in…
Tufts Medical Center has announced that for the first time since March 2020 the hospital does not have any coronavirus inpatients. The…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) understands that America won't have single-payer health care anytime soon. So what…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) doesn't think Medicare-for-All is coming to the United States any time…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) derided what he sees as corporate greed from pharmaceutical companies in a recent Fox News…
After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that there is no right to physician-assisted suicide in the Massachusetts Constitution this week,…
The state's new abortion expansion bill protects abortionists and "life-saving abortion care," an advocate for abortion said…
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was scheduled appear in Boston on Friday, but that will not happen. He…
Minors whose sexual activities put them at risk of getting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus could get pre-exposure medications without the permission…
What is health insurance? Apparently, it's now something that pays for airfare, rental cars, and hotel stays for women who…
The number of reported monkeypox cases in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is now up to seven. An adult man, who recently traveled…
