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Strawberry Child Care's Brookline location was accused of having unsanitary conditions and poor hygiene and of doing negligent background checks of educators.

Under "The Doorway-NH" system, hospitals and others work with local providers to ensure that help is less than an hour away anywhere in the state.

A 2018 state law requires roughly 80 hospitals and satellite emergency rooms to offer patients addicted to opioids a medication to help treat their disease. A handful do. For most, this is a new frontier.

Cases of flu are spiking dramatically in Massachusetts, with a different dominant strain from last year.

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that spending on medical marketing skyrocketed from $17.7 billion in 1997 to $29.9 billion in 2016.

The life insurance giant MassMutual is expanding its benefits program as a recruiting tool to attract new workers.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says he's gone "from a hard no on safe injection sites to, am I in the right place on that?"

A Harvard study analyzing millions of online tests for "implicit bias" finds a striking drop in anti-gay attitudes and a drop in racism as well, but a rise in bias based on body weight.

You’ve seen the public health campaigns about the opioid overdose reversal drug. Now what?

New court documents attempt to lay out a clear chain of command that implicates Sackler family members, as well as Purdue board members or execs, in the opioid epidemic.

David Schumacher, former deputy chief of the healthcare fraud unit for the U.S. Attorney's office in Massachusetts, joined Morning Edition to talk more about Attorney General Maura Healey's complaint filed against the family behind Purdue Pharma, which manufactures Oxycontin.

Dr. Eric Fleegler, creator of the HelpSteps app, joined Morning Edition, to discuss how the app bridges the gap between patients and the help they need.

When Chris Davie learned that a brain tumor would leave him just months left to live, he set out to record his story, and leave a message for his two young children.

The attorney general's complaint outlines Purdue Pharma's work with local institutions and some of the defendants' local ties.

A 2018 survey found that 78 percent of physicians reported feeling burned out at least sometimes.

In Massachusetts, a pregnant minor who wants to get an abortion needs a parent's or judge's permission. A new bill seeks to change that.

If you think you're allergic to penicillin but you're not, you may miss out on the best antibiotic to treat and prevent infection for no good reason, say specialists who advocate for more allergy testing.