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

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 ...

Encouraged by a new financial analysis, the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association promoted legislation Monday requiring insurance coverage of mobile integrated health programs, which are ...

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 ...

Four already-approved drugs eased pain and shrank lesions in mice. Doctors share what that could mean for you.

A new, nationally representative study published in JAMA found that death certificates for at least 41 percent of AI/AN decedents failed to identify them as AI/AN, in most cases misreporting their ...

Nearly one in four U.S. adults over the age of 65 have diabetes. Older veterans are highly impacted by this disease, due in ...