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'Try This' podcast offers lessons in sleep and more
The Washington Post's audio toolkit for falling and staying asleep. -
Gardner hospital reopens mental health unit after years-long struggle to hire clinicians
Like many facilities across the state, Heywood Hospital struggled to hire and retain doctors during a mental health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. This month, it will open six new beds. -
One in five Massachusetts households with children struggle with hunger. Here's how it affects young people.
As of September, an estimated 21.9% of Massachusetts households with children do not have access to sufficient or quality food, according to a U.S. Census survey. -
Overdose deaths in Mass. on track to top 2000 for the 8th year in a row
The state Department of Public Health is renewing a call from several years ago to establish sites where people could use drugs under supervision in an effort to bring down overdose deaths. -
Prominent Boston fertility doctor impregnated patient with his own sperm, lawsuit claims
Dr. Merle Berger, who founded Boston IVF, allegedly told a patient he would use an anonymous donor in 1980 but then used his own sperm without telling her. -
'Transformative' gene therapies could reduce sickle cell disease complications. Here's how Massachusetts played a part.
Boston's Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Somerville's Bluebird Bio helped create the FDA-approved treatments. -
Why gas-powered leaf blowers are getting banned in Greater Boston
Remote work made the noise from gas-powered leaf blowers inescapable. But more people are also learning just how bad they are for health, the environment and the many landscape workers with gas containers strapped to their backs. -
Worcester City Council votes against regulating anti-abortion clinics
The decision ends months of debate on the issue. -
Massachusetts’ new hope in fighting the maternal health crisis? Doulas.
MassHealth will start paying for doula services in late 2023 in a push to reverse widening racial gaps with maternal mortality. -
Small increase in out-of-state travelers for Mass. abortions in 2022, new data shows
Despite national upheaval with Roe v. Wade’s reversal, Massachusetts largely stayed the course in 2022.