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A crowd protests outside the New Hampshire Statehouse on Sunday, July 21, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill banning trans girls from playing girls sports. Two families of transgender girls are now suing over the law. (Paul Cuno-Booth/NHPR)

Families of trans athletes sue over N.H. law banning them from girls’ sports

The families of two transgender girls are suing the state of New Hampshire over a new state law barring them from playing girls sports.

Healey: State to take control of St. Elizabeth's, tentative deals reached for other Steward hospitals

Massachusetts moves to phase out PFAS from firefighter gear

Tobacco agreement yields $600 million windfall for Mass.

State lawmakers agree on maternal health bill

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Steward Health Care's Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Steward Health Care delays hospital sales hearing again

Steward Health Care has once again pushed back a hearing on the sales of its Massachusetts hospitals, company announced in a bankruptcy court filing late Wednesday night. Dallas-based Steward has...

'Our patients need us': Employees, residents plead for Carney Hospital to be saved

Hundreds of health care workers, patients and community members gathered Tuesday night to demand that state officials take action to save Carney Hospital, a fixture in Boston for over a...

Steward reaches deal to sell physicians network to Rural Healthcare Group

Steward Health Care has reached a deal to sell its 5,000-doctor physicians network to Tennessee-based Rural Healthcare Group, a company owned by private equity firm Kinderhook Industries. The agreement still...

Health

Aug 13, 2024

Nicole Herling, sister of shooter Robert Card II, rests her hand on her brother's military helmet, while testifying, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Augusta, Maine, during a hearing of the independent commission investigating the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

New military recruits to undergo baseline 'cognitive assessments' to detect later brain injuries

An analysis released earlier this year suggested that the gunman in last October's mass shooting in Lewiston had traumatic brain injuries that could have been caused by repeated exposures to...

Local Coverage

Aug 13, 2024

An ambulance outside Brockton Hospital on Feb. 7, 2023, the day of the fire. (Courtesy Brewster Ambulance Service)

'There’s some relief': Medical workers cheer reopening of Brockton hospital after fire

Eighteen months after a 10-alarm fire shut down operations, Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital is set to reopen its doors on Tuesday. The reopening is expected to ease heavy patient loads...

Health

Aug 13, 2024

Surya Reis, executive director of the medicinal plant laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, looks at brain cells to see how they might react to potentially psychoactive compounds. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

'One in a series of bumps': FDA says more research necessary before approving MDMA therapy

The Food and Drug Administration has ordered further study — and an additional clinical trial — to show the safety and efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapy as a treatment for post-traumatic...

Local Coverage

Aug 12, 2024

One poster displayed in doctor's offices depicts five local climate concerns: air quality, extreme heat, extreme weather, ticks and mosquitos, and mental health. (Amanda Pirani/NHPR)

A pilot program wants to make it easier for N.H. doctors to talk about climate change

For the past year, one team of Dartmouth Health pediatricians in Lebanon has helped inform patients about five local climate concerns: air quality, extreme heat, extreme weather, ticks, mosquitos and...

Local Coverage

Aug 8, 2024

Carney Hospital in Dorchester. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Boston City Council sounds alarm over Carney Hospital closure

Boston City Council adopted a resolution Wednesday calling for a public health emergency and applying new pressure on the state in an attempt to stave off bankrupt Steward Health Care's...

Health

Aug 8, 2024

A woman, whose baby is swaddled to her chest, joins a protest against new restrictions to be made to family emergency shelter. (Sam Drysdale/SHNS)

Advocates urge Gov. Healey to reverse course on shelter limits

With some families facing eviction from overflow shelter sites later this week, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is collecting signatures on an open letter urging the governor to reverse...

Local Coverage

Aug 7, 2024

A biologist examines a mosquito in Salt Lake City. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

First human case of West Nile Virus this season reported in Mass.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said a man, who is in his 40s, has been infected with West Nile virus. The man was exposed to the virus in Hampden...

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Aug 7, 2024