Massachusetts Health News

U.S. researchers said the so-called "stroke belt" has a tight hold on people born in the South -- even if they move away. People born in the Southern stroke belt -- defined as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas,...

This might sound strange but it seems to be quite common – people tend to lose all sense of time and place after sex. That is what doctors say. It is termed as Transient Global Amnesia or TGA which is...

I worked in the health care industry for six years. During my time in the field of health care insurance and after completing many health care related projects and researching several health care topics it became quite clear that there...

Up to 47 people received in Needham, including 15 firefighters, received a second dose of the seasonal flu shot instead of the H1N1 vaccine last week due to an apparent label mix-up, town administrators learned on Nov. 23. WCVB Channel...

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday. The drug may interfere with the body's mistaken destruction of the insulin-producing cells...

Respiratory syncytial virus may take a greater toll than the better known seasonal flu among young children, U.S. researchers suggest. The finding resulted from an analysis at Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department during several...