More than 2 million adults across Massachusetts, representing over one-third of households, are unable to afford enough food ...

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 ...

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 ...

A statewide study by the Greater Boston Food Bank found that hunger isn’t getting worse, but isn’t getting better, either.

Eli Lilly will buy Boston-based Verve Therapeutics, Inc. in a billion dollar deal with plans to advance Verve's new line of ...

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 ...