RegalCare and other nursing home chains have rapidly expanded in Massachusetts. The Globe Spotlight Team found widespread problems and little state intervention.

Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenci...

Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases, and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenc...

Mass General Brigham researchers created an AI tool that uses a simple face photograph to predict how well a patient may fare with aggressive cancer treatment.

Massachusetts has the second lowest ‘personal needs allowance’ for low-income nursing and rest home residents in New England but the highest cost of living.

Peter Marks: “Unless we dramatically change course, drastically change course, it's going to be a problem. This is what measles does.”

Measles, one of the world’s most contagious viruses, was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. And yet today, with more than 370 confirmed cases reported this year in 17 states, it is maki...

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Democracy can't function without a free press

New England researchers received $4.6 billion in 2024 from the National Institutes of Health.

Black people have a lower life expectancy than white, Hispanic, and Asian people at birth, but that changes much later in life, a new study shows.

A Tufts University team is developing a gel patch that tracks eight variables, including gait and head motion.

URI graduate Patrick Fealey was living in his car with his dog, driving from place to place along the Rhode Island coast. Then a Narragansett family read about his plight, tracked him down, and helped...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.

Many fear that changes to birth certificates and passports will be banned after Trump takes office.