Many of the things adults choose to do are dangerous. Are we going to ban them all?
Health
Posted inEnvironment
How higher temperatures and more pollen are affecting the health of Boston residents
Extreme temperatures pose a health risk on both ends of the spectrum as increasingly hot days can contribute to heat stroke and worsening seasonal allergies, while the bitter cold can aggravate respiratory health issues and cause hypothermia.
Posted inOpinion
Autism is not an ‘epidemic,’ as RFK Jr. suggests
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comparison of current prevalence rates to those from the 1980s or earlier ignores this historical context. Autistic people have always been here. We are simply doing a better job of recognizing and supporting them.
Posted inOpinion
RFK Jr.’s embrace of junk science is bad for families like mine dealing with autism
With last week’s confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s highest health care official believes in junk theories about our wellbeing.
Posted inOpinion
Harvard, other Mass. institutions should clean up their own backyard before trumpeting clean energy efforts elsewhere
Investments by Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham and others in clean energy are great, but that ignores the fact that Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals are powered by a harmful fossil-fuel plant in the heart of Boston.
Posted inHealth
Eight Massachusetts communities crack down on youth tobacco use
Nicotine-free generation policy spreads to more communities as legislators push a statewide ban for people born after the year 2005.
Posted inEconomy
AG Campbell: Medical research change could ‘undermine our economy’
Attorney General Andrea Campbell and nearly two dozen of her peers sued the Trump administration and federal health care agencies Monday, alleging that they unlawfully moved to cut crucial federal dollars for research.
Posted inHealth Care
‘We need more people to work’
In rural locations such as areas of Cape Cod and western Massachusetts, community health centers face significant workforce challenges amid a statewide primary care physician shortage.
Posted inHealth
New law grants pathway for foreign-trained doctors to fill Massachusetts physician shortage
Foreign-trained doctors will soon be able to practice medicine again through a new law that will help the state address its severe primary care physician shortage.
Posted inHealth
Tobacco-free movement takes aim at access to nicotine pouches
Some municipal boards of health, like those in Greenfield and Groton, are floating an “out of sight, out of mind” tactic, restricting certain nicotine product sales to adult-only retail tobacco stores and sparking the ire of retail associations.