Massachusetts Lawmakers Prioritize Health Policy
Katherine O'Malley
August 12, 2026
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
To ensure that the CDC and its grantees got the message, the following language was added to the final [1996] appropriation: “none of the funds
Cheryl Irmiter and colleagues conducted a longitudinal study to evaluate the prevalence, timing, and risk factors for reinstitutionalization of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients with serious
I’m getting some fascinating pushback to my posts on this topic. I’ve decided to dome some serious reading on the topic and come back to
The first of many papers I intend to read in the area of inpatient readmission for mental health conditions is a 2007 review article by
It is very rare for new evidence to question or even negate the utility of a well-established class of drugs. But after four decades as
More data from Christopher Ferguson: As a video game violence researcher and someone who has done scholarship on mass homicides, let me state very emphatically:
The latest results, as summarized by Mark Hlatky in a NEJM editorial: After 5 years of follow-up, the 947 patients assigned to undergo CABG had significantly
Boston is a great city for health policy. On Jan. 25, BU Law hosts a conference on New Legal Challenges to Global Tobacco Control. Just
Earlier this week, when I linked to a post at Gawker by a woman whose son has extreme mental health issues, I got a ton
Here’s the conclusion of a new meta-analysis of currently approved “Z drugs” (e.g., Lunesta, Ambien, Sonata) for insomnia: This study of FDA data shows that
The reindeer’s nasal mucosa was richly vascularised with an abundant microcirculation ferrying a rich concentration of red blood cells; the mean perfused vessel density was
New in the BMJ. Based on an analysis of available footage, and disregarding the film’s emotional distractions, we report the medical case of ET. We