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ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital broke ground on its new emergency department building in a ceremony Thursday, an event that also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its partnership with the Mass General Brigham hospital system.The project,...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — One-third of the way into a first-of-its-kind mandatory campaign to curb spending, Mass General Brigham has achieved about a quarter of its savings target, state regulators said Wednesday.Mass General Brigham, an affiliate of Cooley Dickinson...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed ordinance that one councilor estimates having spent more than 300 hours researching and holding discussions with reproductive and gender-affirming advocates over the...

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — Massachusetts regulators delivered one of their most forceful warnings yet that health care prices are spiraling out of control, ramping up the pressure on lawmakers who have been unable to wrangle the trend and fulfill a consensus vision of...

By Sam Doran

BOSTON — A proposed pilot program for Massachusetts hospitals could be “game-changing” in identifying medical error cases and the causes behind them, the Betsy Lehman Center’s executive director said Monday, and several hospitals have expressed...

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Thousands of Massachusetts residents from marginalized backgrounds could gain health insurance coverage should policymakers move to expand eligibility criteria for state-subsidized plans and remove administrative hurdles, a report released...

By Sydney Ko

BOSTON — Despite the 2020 passage of the ROE Act and a multimillion-dollar investment in reproductive health care access, infrastructure, and security last year, advocates say Massachusetts still faces a threat from efforts to restrict interstate...

By ANNA GUARACAO

As the temperature drops and Bay State residents spend more time indoors, public health experts and health care professionals are concerned about an increasing viral mix of COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, while staffing shortages and overflowing emergency...

By TYNAN POWER

Alice Walker said, “Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.” But what happens when sexuality becomes a site of pain and trauma? For far too many people, harmful experiences can limit...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — When she started planning a health care reform march two months ago, Debby Pastrich-Klemer thought she would be giving a speech in anger.But then, the day before the march, the “skinny repeal” bill, a scaled-down version of plans to...

By Phil Galewitz

After the Senate fell short in their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid.President Donald Trump’s top health officials could...

By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAM

WASHINGTON — After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn’t have the stomach to repeal “Obamacare” on Wednesday when it actually counted. The Senate voted 55-45 to reject legislation to throw out major...

By ALAN FRAM and ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” Tuesday over the failure of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law, and warned, “we will return.”Trump’s early morning tweet unleashed a barrage...

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday he will delay consideration of health care legislation in the Senate, after Sen. John McCain’s announced absence following surgery left Republicans short of votes on their marquee...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Health care, Donald Trump and war were some of the topics of conversation when U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, visited 19 residents of Rockridge Retirement Community for an intimate conversation on Friday.Earlier in the day,...

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON — Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal “Obamacare” also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicating prospects for the GOP, and could lead to deadlock.The...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — In response to the one-day strike by nurses planned for Monday, Baystate Franklin Medical Center has decided to lock out nurses from the hospital starting Sunday evening and lasting until Wednesday evening, according to a letter sent by...

By ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans would cut Medicaid, end penalties for people not buying insurance and erase a raft of tax increases as part of their long-awaited plan to scuttle President Barack Obama’s health care law, congressional aides and...

By ALAN FRAM

WASHINGTON — The Republican effort to secretly craft a health care bill and whisk it through the Senate is drawing fire from members of both parties. But it’s not uncommon for either party to draft bills or resolve stubborn final hurdles behind closed...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Just before taking the stage before thousands at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s commencement Friday, health care was on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s mind.With Republicans holding a firm grip on both houses of Congress and the...