The connection to your primary care provider, usually a doctor, gets severed. You stop getting routine checkups. Warning signs get missed. Medical problems that could have been caught early become ...

A bill wants to make sure those workers are protected. “Folks can’t do their jobs if they’re in the hospital with heat stroke ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a panel including vaccine skeptics, drawing criticism from public health leaders and ...

With ICE arrests rising, some say a Burlington facility designed for short stays is often overcrowded and inhospitable.

A 30-year-old man who was convicted of several charges for shooting his pregnant girlfriend in the head has been sentenced to ...

Scientists and institutions are struggling to navigate new conditions for receiving funding from the National Institutes of ...

The hearing captured the tension and complexity of reining in health care costs that are among the highest in the nation, as insurers, providers and prescription drug companies all point the ...

A statewide study by the Greater Boston Food Bank found that hunger isn’t getting worse, but isn’t getting better, either.

Eli Lilly will buy Boston-based Verve Therapeutics, Inc. in a billion dollar deal with plans to advance Verve's new line of ...

A BU professor warns that federal funding cuts, immigration restrictions and housing costs could reshape the region's status ...

Beach Season Water Quality Report Card bySave the Harbor/Save the Bay, the data has shown thatSouth Boston’s beaches remain the cleanest urban beaches in the country.Pleasure Bay and City Point each ...

A person with measles visited Boston over the weekend, health officials warned Friday, sharing a hotel, museum and airport ...