Dengue is sweeping through the Americas early this year
The regional office of the World Health Organization say that’s three times more cases than reported at this point last year.
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Manchester Hopes Rapid Response Teams Will Help Curb Drug Overdoses
The city of Manchester, New Hampshire, is expanding on a new approach to tackling the opioid crisis. Officials are working to deploy rapid response teams to areas deemed “hot spots.” Commu... -
More Than Half of Mass. Doctors Feeling Burned Out, Survey Finds
Half of Massachusetts doctors surveyed have already or intend to soon cut back their clinical hours, and one in four plan to leave medicine altogether in the coming years, according to new data releas... -
Discover Black Heritage: Top Boston Doctors Explain Health Care Disparities
Top Boston doctors talked about long-standing racial inequities in the health care system as part of NBC10 Boston’s Discover Black Heritage initiative. Dr. Sabrina Assoumou, an infectious disease phys... -
Boston-Based Vertex Aims to Tackle Sickle Cell Disease, Inspire Students
Researchers at a Boston pharmaceutical company hope to make sickle cell disease — a blood disorder that disproportionately affects Black people — more manageable for patients. Vertex Pharmaceuticals s...