LISTEN LIVE: Loading...

Latest Health News

A rallygoer holds a sign protesting potential mental health care cuts and facility closures, part of a rally outside the State House on Feb. 25, 2025. (Chris Lisinski/SHNS)

Apr 8, 2025

Healey administration defends mental health chief after union's no-confidence vote

Department of Mental Health Commissioner Brooke Doyle defended plans Monday to lay off case managers in an effort to redirect resources to inpatient services. This came after SEIU Local 509 announced earlier Monday that 83% of its members from the department took a vote of "no confidence" in Doyle.

A doctor uses a computer. (Getty Images)

How losing the Patient Safety Network could impact public health

Local Coverage

Apr 2, 2025

Biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni, PhD, of UMass Chan Medical School, shut down some of her lab's research aimed at developing tools to help treat pediatric brain cancer. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems

Health

05:21Mar 27, 2025

An Amtrak train passes a New Jersey Transit train stopped to discharge and board passengers at Elizabeth train station Saturday, March 12, 2016, in Elizabeth, N.J., along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. (Mel Evans/AP)

Person infected with measles rode Amtrak train to D.C.

Health

Mar 26, 2025

Support WBUR

Glasses of orange juice, grapefruit juice, multivitamin juice and fruits on wood. (Getty Images)

Can citrus prevent depression? What a Harvard study finds about oranges, grapefruit and your brain

Health

More Health News

Glorya Fernandez is the first to serve as the Boston Public Library's chef-in-residence. The library is now looking for its second chef. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

Learning about 'nutritional literacy' with Boston Public Library's chef-in-residence

The Boston Public Library recently wrapped up the inaugural year of its chef-in-residence program and is searching for its second chef.

Arts & Culture

04:42Mar 24, 2025

A demonstration of a medical delivery drone. (Photo courtesy of MassDOT)

MassDOT eyes a new frontier for drones: medical deliveries

MassDOT says drones could be a faster, cheaper alternative to ground deliveries. State officials have had preliminary talks with health care organizations about using them, following a series of successful...

Local Coverage

Mar 19, 2025

Gov. Maura Healey speaks to reporters at a press conference at Boston Children's Hospital on Monday, March 17 2025. Boston Children's Hospital President and CEO Kevin Churchwell stands to her side. (Sam Drysdale / SHNS)

Boston Children's Hospital feeling pinch of federal funding cuts

The president of Boston Children's Hospital said cuts affecting the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration have begun to halt the...

Health

Mar 18, 2025

The Boston skyline rises up beyond Belle Isle Marsh. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

How rolling back EPA regulations could impact New England air and water

“It's almost inevitable that New England communities will be facing dirtier air and dirtier water,” said Brad Campbell, president of the Conservation Law Foundation.

Environment

Mar 14, 2025

In this file photo, pictured is an empty middle school classroom in Chelsea, Mass. on Aug. 3, 2020. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Five years after COVID, what school workers recall best — and what problems linger

In 2020, the pandemic closed classrooms and banished hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to learn over screens at home. Here's what some local school workers say they saw then —...

Education

04:10Mar 14, 2025

The UMass Chan Medical School campus. (Courtesy UMass Chan Medical School)

UMass medical school rescinds PhD program offers amid uncertainty over federal funds

The notice, signed by dean of the college, Mary Ellen Lane, called the decision "unfortunate" and said institutions across the country are "rescinding offers of admission as one means of...

Local Coverage

Mar 13, 2025

UMass medical school implements hiring and spending freeze, considers layoffs

Leaders at UMass Chan Medical School are freezing hiring and spending, citing ongoing uncertainty surrounding federal funding. Several universities, including Harvard and MIT have taken similar steps.

Health

Mar 12, 2025

A vial of testosterone is prepared for injection at a home in Florida. (Laura Bargfeld/AP)

Doctors sue Trump to reinstate research that mentions transgender or LGBTQ+ people

Two Massachusetts doctors are suing the Trump administration for removing their research from a patient safety website. Federal directors said use of the words "transgender" and "LGBTQ" violated executive orders....

Health

Mar 12, 2025

Mass General Brigham's facility in Assembly Square. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Layoffs continue at Mass General Brigham

MGB says its "strategic organizational redesign," which primarily involves cutting management and administrative positions, comes as the system grapples with a projected $250 million budget gap over the next two...

Local Coverage

Mar 11, 2025

A sign hangs on the door of a health care worker's home in Massachusetts who survived COVID in May 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

People who lost loved ones to COVID continue pushing for a national day of remembrance

The organization Marked By Covid has been pushing for a national memorial day for those who died during the pandemic. So far, Congress has failed to enact such a resolution.

Local Coverage

03:23Mar 10, 2025