Tagged: Health Care

It’s a Tuesday afternoon at the Roxbury YMCA. Like many kids their age, these students from nearby Trotter Elementary are getting ready for some after-school fun and for them, that means swimming.

Humanitarian doctor Paul Farmer explains how global health is rooted in community. Read his recent Atlantic article about the Rwandan health recovery here. 

Can companies own pieces of us? We look at the Supreme Court's Myriad Genetics case.

If you or someone you know suffers from a mental illness like depression, schizophrenia, or an eating disorder, you know it can take years to arrive at a proper diagnosis. For the first time in two decades, a new edition of the go-to manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose such disorders is being released, but not without controversy.

Carolyn Aldridge discovered she had cancer completely by accident.

More than 13 million people in the United States have survived cancer -- but as most of these survivors know, life-saving treatments like chemo and radiation leave them weakened and debilitated. Now, a Massachusetts-based company is offering specialized care to get survivors back on their feet sooner.

A visit to your primary care physician often means long waits in exchange for fleeting face-time with your doctor. But a growing trend in the medical field aims to change that – and a whole lot more – about the way patients are treated.

Where we live matters to our health. 

That's according to research released on March 20, 2013 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The report ranks the health of every county in the nation based on social and economic factors, health behaviors, access to clinical care and physical environment. 

Mass. County Health Rankings -- Click Your County for Data