Patients in Medicare Advantage plans are staying longer in the hospital but receiving considerably less post-acute care than their peers in traditional Medicare, according to a new study.

The Commonwealth Fund, a private research group that studies health care, has ranked Massachusetts No. 1 and Rhode Island No. 4 among all states in its 2025 scorecard examining the overall performance ...

Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T appears to stop ...

Hospital-at-home programs gained significant traction during the COVID-19 era, spurred by CMS’ 2020 waiver program to ease hospital capacity. What began as an emergency measure has since evolved into ...

A new Commonwealth Fund report shows that Massachusetts ranks first among U.S. states for overall health system performance.

He didn't smell like it," she said.Sign up for our NewslettersThat was no accident.The teen, in an interview with 5 ...

The ranking comes from Money magazine, with the UVM Children's Hospital among the list of the top 20 pediatric hospitals in ...

A statewide study by the Greater Boston Food Bank found that hunger isn’t getting worse, but isn’t getting better, either.

The San Francisco-born star of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Euphoria’ has been on Good Morning America this week to discuss the ...

Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered much of the funding to be restored, pending an appeal. “I’ve never seen a record where racial ...

ALS, short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a degenerative neurological disorder that eventually leads to paralysis, taking away a person's ability to move, speak, swallow or even breathe, ...

Bruins Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, and Pavel Zacha were among the first players named to 2026 Winter Olympics rosters.