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Are Young Women With Cancer In One Breast Needlessly Having The Other Removed?
[Watch on YouTube] Are young patients with cancer in one breast, driven by unfounded fears and anxiety, having the other breast removed unnecessarily? That’s the troubling question implicit in this new...
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Curb Your Hysteria: Talking Rationally To Kids About Ebola Risk
A man diagnosed with Ebola this week is being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. (AP) By Gene Beresin, MD and Steve Schlozman, MD On Sept. 30 the first case of Ebola was diagnosed...
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Harvard Poll On Ebola Risk Finds Public Dazed And Very Confused
A World Health Organization worker trains nurses on how to use Ebola protective gear in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (AP) By Richard Knox Americans are seriously confused about how Ebola spreads. And it’s...
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Don’t Worry, Be Rational: Why Extreme Fear Of Ebola Is Bad For Your Health
A licensed clinician participates in a CDC training course in Alabama earlier this month for treating Ebola patients. (Brynn Anderson/AP) Let’s face it, Ebola is scary. My kids are scared. The moms at...
View ArticleExpert: Trump Declaration Of National Emergency May Free Up Funding,...
"Something that is unclear right now is whether the administration has a plan to utilize this declaration," Dr. Andrew Kolodny said.
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From The French About Fighting Lyme Disease
France is the first country to release a national plan to fight Lyme disease -- though it has far fewer cases than the U.S. -- and Dr. David Scales looks at its efforts to improve prevention, tracking...
View Article4 Die Of Overdoses In Chelsea Over The Weekend
Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes said it's possible that the drugs used may have been laced with fentanyl.
View ArticleHarvard Study Of Skeletons Suggests Much Age-Related Arthritis May Be...
If we're right that "wear and tear" cause arthritis as we age, why did our grandparents and ancestors have much less of it than we do?
View ArticleNew Data Shows Populations At Risk In Mass. Opioid Epidemic
The Baker administration released new data that shows how widespread addiction to heroin and other opioids has become and who is most at risk.
View ArticleOne Step Closer To Making Mice That Fight Lyme, Scientists Ask Nantucket:...
If the proposal comes to fruition, it could mean that a few years from now, islanders will witness the first deliberate release of a gene-edited mammal into the environment, says MIT biologist Kevin...
View ArticleInventive Help For Mental Health One College Student Would Suggest To Another
Beyond the campus counseling center, college students have many new and inventive options to help them support their own -- and their friends' -- mental health.
View ArticleSolar Burn: Why You Really, Truly Should Not Peek Bare-Eyed At The Eclipse
Remember using a magnifying glass to focus the sun to burn a hole in a piece of paper? You don't want to do that to your retina.
View ArticleState Officials 'Encouraged' By Drop In Overdose Deaths
A quarterly report shows an estimated 5 percent drop in overdose fatalities in the first six months of this year, as compared with the same period in 2016. But death rates are still rising.
View ArticleTelemedicine Helps Patients And Cuts Costs, But Mass. Is Far Behind
"If Massachusetts is serious about controlling its high costs," writes Scott Haller, "there is no better next step than to expand telemedicine's use."
View ArticleMany Seek Care At Boston 'Tick-Borne Impairment' Clinic That Tries To Avoid...
Instead of focusing on the most contentious Lyme disease questions -- diagnostic labels, long-term antibiotics -- Spaulding Hospital's Dean Center sidesteps the controversy and focuses on treating...
View ArticleWhy Doctors Need To Remember That Sick Patients Were Once Healthy People
In medicine, it is easy to forget that life is far more than just a beating heart or breathing lungs.
View ArticleThe Opioid Epidemic Needs A Strategy For Teens
"We are facing a new reality: our patients, who could be your next-door neighbor’s child or even your own, need help confronting the traditionally ‘adult’ problem of addiction," write Dr. Scott...
View Article7 Things I Learned While Reporting On Lyme And Other Tick-Borne Diseases
Dr. David Scales offers lessons learned from his months of reporting.
View ArticleReports Of Rehab Scams Raise Concerns About Addiction Treatment Quality
In Massachusetts, health officials say the treatment system is strong, even though 300 complaints were filed last year against treatment programs.
View ArticleWhy Patients May Be Put In Charge Of Their Own Post-Operative Care
My father is on the leading edge of a growing trend for routine surgical patients with no complications and no other complex medical problems: Get out and stay out.
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