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Mass General Brigham is no longer delaying non-emergency procedures due to a shortage of intravenous fluids, but said rationing is continuing.

A tentative agreement has been reached to prevent a nurse strike at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said Thursday. The deal comes about two weeks after nurses voted overwhelmingly to approve a one-day strike. Union members said at the time that a year of contract negotiations had failed to bring an agreement. The union...

Hundreds of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood voted to authorize a one-day strike. For 10 months, they have been negotiating with Mass General Brigham leaders for a new contract but ultimately, the two sides are still far apart. “Progress has been made on several topics and we have presented a fair, equitable...

Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain have voted to authorize a strike. The near unanimous vote means that thousands of nurses could hit the picket line for a one-day strike.

Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital are scheduled to vote Thursday night to potentially authorize a one-day strike as they continue to push for a new contract.

Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have voted to authorize a strike, and hundreds of others may join their fight Thursday. At Faulkner Hospital in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, there’s about 500 nurses that say they have reached their tipping point and are scheduled to vote to strike until a list of demands are met. Some of...

Local nurses say they are outraged by the work conditions in the hospital system and are taking action. So far, Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses are set to strike, and Faulkner nurses could join them after Thursday’s vote.

Thousands of health care workers with Brigham and Women’s Hospital could soon be going on strike. The Massachusetts Nurses Association voted overwhelmingly to allow the Boston hospital’s nurses to hit the picket line. The tally was nearly unanimous, with 2,507 union members voting to enable a one-day strike and just 16 voting no. “We didn’t want to be here,...

The Massachusetts Nurses Association voted overwhelmingly to allow nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to go on a one-day strike.

Three employees of Massachusetts’ largest health care system have been fired over a “privacy incident” concerning the personal information of patients. Mass General Brigham said in a press release Friday that it learned earlier this year that unauthorized access to some patients’ and policy holders’ information may have been granted. The hospital system said it was notifying certain Massachusetts residents…

Many of us need to take medication everyday, and for some people, it’s a lengthy daily regimen of prescriptions to manage our health. It can be an overwhelming workload, though, for doctors and pharmacists to track all of their patients’ prescriptions, according to Dr. Lisa Rotenstein. She is a primary care provider, who previously worked at Boston’s Brigham and...

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Fewer than 10 Black women have spine fellowship training, and one of them is Brigham and Women’s Dr. Shaina Lipa.

Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization, leaving some of them devastated. Alexis Goulette, who runs a private IVF support group on Facebook, said Wednesday that a lot of the women had been informed of cancellations by voicemail and...

Five families say their dead infants’ remains were discarded against their wishes.

A top Boston hospital, already accused of losing the body of a baby girl who died at 12 days old, is facing new claims of improper disposal of infant remains. A lawyer for the families says Brigham and Women’s Hospital has a “missing baby problem,” though the prestigious hospital is calling the new allegations inaccurate. The allegations were heard Thursday…

At least 120 former patients have joined a class action lawsuit against a Boston-based physician accused of performing pelvic, breast and rectal exams on patients that were not medically necessary. The suit from Lubin & Meyer is one of several against Dr. Derrick Todd. In total, more than 125 former patients have obtained legal representation. Todd, who was a rheumatologist…

Dr. Derrick Todd is facing legal action from a growing number of former patients, with at least 120 joining a class action lawsuit.

More than 100 plaintiffs have now joined a series of lawsuits filed against a Boston-based physician accused of performing pelvic, breast and rectal exams on patients that were not medically necessary. According to The Boston Globe, four separate lawsuits have now been filed against Dr. Derrick Todd on behalf of over 100 patients. The Boston law firm of Lubin &…

A woman who says she’s a survivor of sexual assault by a Boston-based doctor who treated her has filed a civil lawsuit against him and medical institutions where he’s practiced, while a law firm said it was representing nearly three dozen other women claiming he assaulted them as well. Marianne DiTrani spoke at a news conference in Boston Tuesday...