With last week’s confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s highest health care official believes in junk theories about our wellbeing.
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Harvard, other Mass. institutions should clean up their own backyard before trumpeting clean energy efforts elsewhere
Investments by Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham and others in clean energy are great, but that ignores the fact that Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals are powered by a harmful fossil-fuel plant in the heart of Boston.
Posted inHealth
Eight Massachusetts communities crack down on youth tobacco use
Nicotine-free generation policy spreads to more communities as legislators push a statewide ban for people born after the year 2005.
Posted inEconomy
AG Campbell: Medical research change could ‘undermine our economy’
Attorney General Andrea Campbell and nearly two dozen of her peers sued the Trump administration and federal health care agencies Monday, alleging that they unlawfully moved to cut crucial federal dollars for research.
Posted inHealth Care
‘We need more people to work’
In rural locations such as areas of Cape Cod and western Massachusetts, community health centers face significant workforce challenges amid a statewide primary care physician shortage.
Posted inHealth
New law grants pathway for foreign-trained doctors to fill Massachusetts physician shortage
Foreign-trained doctors will soon be able to practice medicine again through a new law that will help the state address its severe primary care physician shortage.
Posted inHealth
Tobacco-free movement takes aim at access to nicotine pouches
Some municipal boards of health, like those in Greenfield and Groton, are floating an “out of sight, out of mind” tactic, restricting certain nicotine product sales to adult-only retail tobacco stores and sparking the ire of retail associations.
Posted inOpinion
Train conductors, NFL players do it — why not the president?
We simply cannot roll the dice and hope that the president we elect is cognitively sound enough to handle this kind of pressure.
Posted inHealth
Brookline generational tobacco ban catching on in Mass.
Rather than setting a minimum age to buy tobacco and nicotine products, generational bans bar anyone born after a certain date from purchasing the products. As the name implies, the generational ban means tobacco and nicotine products will be off-limits forever to a younger generation within the geographical area covered by the ban.
Posted inOpinion
We need more stories like Bobby’s
As we have shown with cystic fibrosis here in Massachusetts, when the patients, families, scientists, academics, political leaders, and life science companies come together as one, there is no cure that is beyond our reach. Just ask Bobby.