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.
Below are recent publications from me and my colleagues from Boston University’s Department of Health Law, Policy and Management. You can find all posts in this
A press release on a recently published scientific study has been catching clicks with the headline “low-calorie sweeteners do not mean low risk for infants: New research shows the impact ‘diet’ ingredients have on body weight and gut microbiota”. The biggest problem? The infants to which they refer are mouse pups.
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2020, The New York Times Company)
Is there such a thing as a healthful beverage?
In truth, there’s not much of a health case to drink any beverage other than water after the age of 2 — despite the marketing and advertising you might have seen on the benefits of things like dairy milk, plant-based milks, juices and more.
All other mammals consume only two liquids over the course of their lives: breast milk and water. The evidence for telling humans that some beverages are necessary and that others should be avoided isn’t nearly as clear as many believe.
Last week we talked about why pushing school start times back to later in the morning is good for students. There’s also an economic argument
Cecille Joan Avila is a Policy Analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets at @cecilleavila. Community Health Centers (CHC) are located in
Liam Bendicksen is an undergraduate at Brown University studying Public Health and Public Policy. He tweets at @liambendicksen and you can reach him at liam_bendicksen@brown.edu.
Childhood obesity is a rapidly growing problem in the United States, and one of our best tools for treating obesity in adults is bariatric surgery.
Liam Bendicksen is an undergraduate at Brown University studying Public Health and Public Policy. He tweets at @liambendicksen and you can reach him at liam_bendicksen@brown.edu.
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2020, The New York Times Company). It also appeared on page B5 of the print edition on
A lot of people worry about whether or not they get enough sleep. While there’s no single answer to how much sleep a given individual
The theme is Viennese Post-Romanticism (Strauss, Bruckner, and Mahler). The concert will be on Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3pm at the First Baptist Church of Arlington
We’re still firmly on the “Don’t Panic” message with the new Coronavirus outbreak. This week we’re going to look at a couple of scenarios for