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

Scientists and institutions are struggling to navigate new conditions for receiving funding from the National Institutes of ...

Health officials in Massachusetts said on Tuesday they’ve identified a batch of mosquitos that tested positive for West Nile ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Brookfield Public Market would be built on land that was previously part of the former Boston Store building.

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

Now, a groundbreaking study from researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School is offering a potential new path forward: using already FDA-approved migraine medications to ...

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 ...