Medicine

Some medical debt collectors are trying to collect bills that have already been paid. Here are some questions you can ask that can protect your wallet.

A clinical trial is testing whether an existing drug could benefit patients with Alzheimer’s disease, in hopes of making symptom-improving medication more accessible for people experiencing mild cognitive impairment.

More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, and we’re hearing from a retired Massachusetts state trooper who is among them.

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A retired Massachusetts state trooper has spent his life helping others — but now, he’s in need of help as he searches an organ donor following a kidney failure diagnosis. Tom McAnulty lives in Walpole with his wife of over three decades, Kathleen. The two were looking forward to their retired lives, when Tom received life-changing news in 2020. “Out…

After spending nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conjoined twins Amari and Javar Ruffin were successfully separated.

Forty years after the Hatch-Waxman Act created a market for affordable generic versions of prescription medications, it is struggling with persistent shortages.

Their surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation as the microRNAs are proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.

Is Novo Nordisk helping Americans save taxpayer money or ripping them off? The company’s CEO is scheduled to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms, but new research could one day lead to lives being saved. Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester discovered that using something called nanoparticles can effectively shrink tumors in mice. They hope to someday move this research to human trials and be able to save lives. “If we are successful and…

Researchers in Massachusetts have discovered that using nanoparticles to deliver drugs can shrink tumors in mice.

The biotech industry has become a critical piece of Massachusetts’ economy, but economic headwinds have led to layoffs and empty lab space. MassBio has released a new industry snapshot saying that those layoffs have been offset by new jobs.

Greater Boston — particularly Kendall Square in Cambridge and more recently the Seaport District — has become a global leader in the biotech industry over the past decade and a half, but do the hundreds of local layoffs signify a threat to what has become a critical piece of Massachusetts’ economy? Likely not, say industry leaders, rather, they explain that…

The late-stage trial on tirzepatide also found that patients experienced sustained weight loss over the roughly three-year treatment period.

Federal regulators on Tuesday sent warning letters to several drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for weight loss, diabetes, asthma and other respiratory conditions.

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...

FeelBetter is teaming up with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to bring their AI tech to patients here in Greater Boston.

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President Joe Biden often overstates what people who are eligible for the price cap for insulin paid previously.

A doctor who was once a good fit might not always meet the needs you have now. Here are some signs that it’s time to find a new one.

Flovent, made by the company GlaxoSmithKline, was discontinued at the end of December. It was used to treat asthma in both children and adults, and many are now struggling to find the medication they need to breathe.

Flovent, a popular inhaler that has been used to treat asthma for the last 25 years, is disappearing from pharmacy shelves, leaving patients and doctors scrambling to find the medication they need in order to breathe.   The drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, discontinued the medication at the end of December. Keyes Drug store in Newton got their final shipment at the…