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WILBRAHAM — Rick’s Place invites the community to join in honoring Children’s Grief Awareness Month through “Colors of Grief: Shades The post Rick’s Place Announces Community Art Exhibit for Children’s Grief Awareness Month appeared...October 15, 2025 from Health Care News
TAUNTON — The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care (EEC) voted unanimously to adopt the standard Commonwealth Cares for The post Board of Early Education and Care Approves New Funding Formula appeared first on Health Care News .October 15, 2025 from Health Care News
BOSTON — The Berkshire Bank Foundation invested nearly $400,000 in its communities through grants to 96 nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts, The post Nearly $400,000 Invested in Local Nonprofits by Berkshire Bank Foundation appeared...October 15, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — WillPower Foundation, a longtime champion of families with different abilities in Western Mass., announced its next chapter: a The post WillPower Foundation Joins Multicultural Community Services appeared first on Health...October 15, 2025 from Health Care News
BOSTON — The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, in partnership with Manatt Health, released “Faces of MassHealth: Coverage The post Report Illustrates Role of MassHealth in Lives of Massachusetts Residents appeared...October 15, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — Rock 102 will present its third annual Mayflower Marathon Comedy Night, an evening of laughter to support Open The post Mayflower Marathon Comedy Night on Oct. 16 to Benefit Open Pantry of Springfield appeared first on...October 13, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — On Oct. 6, Hyundai Hope on Wheels presented Baystate Children’s Hospital with a $100,000 Impact Grant to support The post Hyundai Hope on Wheels Awards $100,000 Grant to Baystate Children’s Hospital appeared first on Health...October 13, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — The Healthcare Heroes class of 2025 will be celebrated by BusinessWest and the Healthcare News at a gala The post Healthcare Heroes to Be Celebrated at Gala on Oct. 22 appeared first on Health Care News .October 13, 2025 from Health Care News
BOSTON — The Healey-Driscoll administration announced it has opened applications for the second round of the Family Child Care Capital The post State Opens Application for Second Round of Family Child Care Capital Grants appeared first...October 10, 2025 from Health Care News
NORTHAMPTON — Cancer Connection announced two new members of the nonprofit’s board of directors, Rebecca Finkel and Malaika Ross. Finkel The post Cancer Connection Welcomes Rebecca Finkel, Malaika Ross to Board of Directors appeared...October 7, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin has stopped performing abortions even though they're legal in that state because of a new rule that stops Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortion.October 7, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with KFF Health News' Chief Washington Correspondent Julie Rovner about the healthcare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown.October 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.October 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Hundreds of current and former VA clinicians have sent an open letter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, warning that cuts and increased privatization threaten the VA health care system.September 10, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
President Trump signed a memo on Tuesday directing the FDA to crack down on direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. But there are limits to what any administration can do.September 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
The Boston Globe's Jason Laughlin explains how Massachusetts and other states are forming independent healthcare coalitions to fill in the gap on healthcare policy left by sweeping federal changes.September 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.September 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
States are planning for how they'll run leaner Medicaid operations after federal budget cuts. But some states are running into another problem -- they can't legally use their budgets to fill the gap.September 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Independent and rural hospitals are collaborating with their neighbors to shore up their finances instead of joining larger health systems to stay afloat.August 28, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
The FDA has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting eligibility to those at risk for serious complications. That includes anyone age 65 and older and younger people with other health issues. The new limitations could make...July 15, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Cancer researchers have completed one of the most comprehensive studies of the cells inside melanoma brain metastases.July 15, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
New research indicates the best available chemotherapy for Kaposi Sarcoma, which is infrequently used in Africa, is cost effective and would improve clinical outcomes.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new process, which is more effective and efficient than conventional methods, has the potential to significantly impact cancer diagnostics as well as other fields of research.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Clinical trial results suggest that a step strategy, in which patients with diabetic macular edema start with a less expensive medicine and switch to a more expensive medicine if vision does not improve sufficiently, gives results...July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A minimally invasive test was able to identify pathology in patients at different stages of disease and potentially enable earlier intervention, researchers report.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
In an analysis of medical information of more than 6,000 American adults with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers conclude that CVD risk 'profiles' in secondary prevention have failed to improve over the last two decades.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test was found to be highly accurate, sensitive, and specific for both NASH and liver fibrosis.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
New research investigates consumer product-related traumatic brain injuries (CP-TBI) among school-aged children for a 20-year period by differentiating age groups, levels of education, and gender and evaluating trends with the time-point...July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Resilience and a high quality of life are demonstrated by many individuals born with heart defects; however, they may face a range of health-related psychological and social challenges throughout their lives. A new scientific statement...July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Using EEG to identify covert consciousness in unresponsive brain-injured patients could help predict which ones may recover, researchers have found.July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a noninvasive method to identify a potential cause of hypertension with a drastic reduction in radiation exposure, a new study shows. The fluorine-based reagent detects whether the hormone aldosterone is being...July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
The treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated dysplasia is often challenging due to diagnostic techniques that are unable to accurately differentiate and classify the severity of neoplastic lesions. Now, researchers have...July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
The study is the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis to date of scientific literature on health and spirituality. Overlooking spirituality in health care leaves patients feeling disconnected from the health care system and from the...July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
There is great news to share about hospital patient safety nationally over the last decade with the largest medical record-based study ever finding a significant decrease in hospital adverse events.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness, are at significant risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Development of a precision medicine technology based on artificial intelligence that predicts immunotherapy response in cancer patients.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have identified the child cancer patients at greatest risk of developing life-threatening infections, in a crucial step towards the development of an early diagnostic test.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Offering intensive, weekly telephone-based cessation counseling along with nicotine replacement for people who smoke and who were undergoing screening for lung cancer resulted in over a two-fold greater cigarette quit rate compared to...July 11, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study can help guide proper treatment course for patients depending on heart function and severity of heart damage.July 11, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have long noted a connection between opioid use disorder (OUD) and chronic pain, however brain mechanisms linking OUD and chronic pain are poorly understood. A new study has explored one potential mechanism -- central...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers found that high dose nitric oxide given to pregnant women with severe COVID-19 pneumonia resulted in reductions in the need for supplemental oxygen as well as in hospital and ICU lengths of stay, with no adverse events...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission.July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists and physicians describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community -- a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study in patients reveals that two newly identified plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease can predict postoperative delirium, one of the most common postoperative complications in older patients. The findings indicate the...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
People with two pediatric-onset neurodevelopmental disorders are prescribed opioids at a rate up to five times higher than those who do not have those conditions, a new study finds. Researchers say the findings raise concerns over...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Research has uncovered strong evidence that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal infections of the skin.July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Intermittent fasting has previously shown to have a host of health benefits, including lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Now, researchers have found that people who regularly fast are less like to experience severe...July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study offers evidence that transgender patients who receive gender-affirming facial feminization surgery reported better mental health after their procedures.July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Heart failure patients experiencing grief or in mourning following the loss of a close family member are at an increased risk of death, particularly during the first week following the family member's death, according to a new study.July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A group of public health experts from several universities and organizations is urging adoption of a multi-layered approach when developing policies to mitigate the impact of gas and oil production operations. They lay out a framework...