This is the second article of “Out the Shadows,” an ongoing investigation into child abuse and neglect in Massachusetts.Dozens of cases of Massachusetts…

Child abuse and neglect deaths are on the rise in Massachusetts. But with 110 such deaths in five years, a third of them under the watch of DCF, the state is failing to learn from the tragic toll.

Massachusetts is one of only two states in the U.S. that did not provide timely child fatality data for a 2013 federal report. NECIR’s effort to obtain data illustrates the protracted challenges in extracting such information.

Worried that too few doctors and pregnant women understand that new prenatal genetic tests can be wrong a significant amount of time, two U.S.…

Quest Diagnostics, one of nation’s largest diagnostic testing companies, is funding a nationwide campaign by the Perinatal Quality Foundation — a national non-profit dedicated to improving obstetrical car — to raise awareness of cell-free DNA tests.

The Department of Public Works has a habit of implying Boston potholes have been fixed when they haven’t, according to an examination by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.

Mercury emissions from major Massachusetts sources have declined by 90 percent over the past two decades, but mercury levels in the state’s freshwater fish hold stubbornly high, with many species too contaminated for pregnant women and children to eat. Meanwhile, languid summer days and the lure of Massachusetts’ 3,000 freshwater bodies – from the Berkshire's Lake Pontoosuc to Boston's Jamaica Pond – send many anglers casting for a good fish dinner.

A vacation home damaged at least 10 times by Atlantic storms will be elevated with money from a federal grant for the second time in a dozen years – this…

Cancer patients or their families often arrive at oncologists’ offices holding printouts about genetic tests that they found on the Internet. The tests…

Doctors are the first line of defense in ensuring women receive sound advice about a new generation of prenatal screens and other complex tests. But many…