Rebecca Ostriker

The singer’s reminiscences flowed as he closed out a four-show run at the club on Thursday night.

Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are enrolling patients in studies of the experimental drug remdesivir.

These financial cutbacks, coming in response to sudden shortfalls during the coronavirus outbreak, have triggered an outcry from doctors and nurses who are already working grueling shifts in demanding working conditions.

It’s a phenomenon seen at Boston’s Biogen meeting and elsewhere. What can we do about it?

Small facilities lack the resources of bigger hospitals to handle a surge of very sick patients. In many ways these hospitals are being hit harder than the larger locations, with tougher puzzles to solve in managing tight resources and treating severe cases.

The move could potentially serve all hospitals within Massachusetts as health care professionals statewide work to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

Chaplains are taking unprecedented steps as they face the coronavirus pandemic. And they are feeling vulnerable as they never have before.

Battelle, which has set up a giant decontamination machine in Somerville, says the service will be offered at no charge to healthcare providers.

As part of a bold initiative involving hospitals across the state, MGH on Monday began distributing thousands of freshly decontaminated N95 masks to health care workers after the equipment went through an elaborate cleaning process at a site now up and running in Somerville.

In a pandemic perceived as largely sparing the very young from serious illness, a growing number of children infected with COVID-19 in Massachusetts have become so severely ill that they have needed hospitalization — sometimes even ventilators.

Staff at the Ragon research institute in Cambridge could be test subjects in a plan to pave the way for societal reopening.

Antibody testing, also known as serology testing, can reveal if someone was infected in the past, even if they recovered or never felt significant symptoms. Such tests could be key in plans for the Commonwealth to safely, fully reopen.

The collaboration comes after questions were raised about the federal government’s puzzling process for distributing the drug.

Experts say behavior, biology, and societal factors may all play a part in sex disparities in COVID-19 deaths. But an important key may be found in nursing homes.

A COVID-19 outbreak killed 76 veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home last spring. Here are five takeaways from Globe reporting on the story.

A national group is launching a campaign to end “legacy” preferences, using an alumni donations boycott.

The company, which is now officially in default, has been in crisis, laboring to pay creditors as it grapples with more than $300 billion in liabilities.

Some doctors have already been subpoenaed to provide testimony about the hospital’s oversight of Dr. Yvon Baribeau’s surgery practice.

The heart surgeon, who abruptly retired in 2019, has 21 malpractice settlements linked to his work at the hospital, including 14 cases in which he was accused of contributing to patients’ deaths.

Some are pressing Harvard to do more to protect diversity – and arguing that the need for the university to end legacy admissions has taken on a stark new urgency.