Kay Lazar

As the proportion of fatal crashes involving older drivers rises, two new studies underscore significant challenges ahead.

New research suggests riders and city planners need to make changes to keep people safe.

Massachusetts voters will decide next month whether to legalize five psychedelics.

"We must immediately act to conserve fluids," the hospital wrote in an email to employees Wednesday.

A distinct “antibody signature” could herald a new test to pinpoint who will recover.

The new COVID shots won’t be available until the fall. Here’s what to do in the meantime.

Massachusetts’ new public health commissioner on the many challenges that face him, and his way of handling the accompanying stress.

Increasingly, scientists believe that genes, and not necessarily good habits, determine who lives past 100. But which genes?

Dr. Robbie Goldstein is also an infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Pandemic isolation provided a fertile climate for online groups to lure vulnerable kids toward radical ideology, experts say.

Some experts are concerned that these new body scans for the “worried well” are surging ahead of the current science on AI.

Merkel cell carcinoma is about five times more lethal than the better-known skin cancer, melanoma.

The abrupt announcement of four nursing homes closing in Western Massachusetts underscores the precarious condition of the state’s overwhelmed health care system.

Since the end of the first Omicron wave last March, white people in Massachusetts are more likely to die from COVID than Black or Hispanic people.

Specialists who treat women with these mood disorders say it’s not uncommon for providers to try multiple medications. Yet, some said that using more than a dozen such drugs in such a short span of time is unusual.

As recently as 2021, callers could expect an ambulance to arrive within about six minutes. But, median response times in Boston for life-threatening emergencies have now grown from just over seven minutes in January 2022 to 7.7 minutes in December, records show.

Finding guardians for hospital patients in legal limbo is one of the most challenging and soul-wrenching aspects of the state’s current healthcare crisis, leaders say.

A letter sent to families said school and city health leaders were discussing a masking mandate for the first two weeks of school after the break.

Alcohol-related deaths, disability, and property damage cost Massachusetts at least $5.6 billion annually, while causing thousands of deaths and illnesses. Yet revenues from alcohol-specific taxes fall far short of repaying those costs.

Jellybean’s tumors disappeared after she entered an immunotherapy clinical trial at Tufts.