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Young Adult Peer Mentor Jake Look deals cards to himself and 16-year-old Nathaniel for a game of Trash during a session at Riverside Community Care in Milford, Mass. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

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Peer support transforms mental health care for some in Massachusetts

People who’ve struggled with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and other conditions are joining the mental health workforce to provide support for patients experiencing some of the same difficulties they have worked to overcome. In Massachusetts, mental health care leaders call them game-changers.

Holy Family Hospital's facility in Methuen, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Workers describe unpaid bills, delayed care and anxiety at Mass. Steward hospitals

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04:28Apr 30, 2024

The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

State ends housing programs for those in 'Mass. and Cass' encampment

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Apr 29, 2024

The entrace to the Norfolk County Sheriff's HOPE Center. (Photo courtesy Norfolk County Sheriff's Office

Norfolk County Sheriff opens center to help people build stable lives after incarceration

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Apr 25, 2024

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View of the Massachusetts State House from the corner of Tremont and Park Streets. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

House, Senate approve plan to cap family shelter stays at 9 months and up budget by $251 million

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Steward's leases make hospitals 'less attractive' to buyers, Mass. health secretary says

The Healey administration's top health care official said the property and leasing of Steward Health Care hospitals is complicating efforts to find a buyer.

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Apr 24, 2024

In this file photo, psilocybin mushrooms are seen in a grow room in the Netherlands. (AP/Peter Dejong)

From politics to the lab: The push for psychedelics in Mass.

New research, a potential state ballot measure and pending decisions from the FDA are putting psychedelics are on a path that could lead them to become an integral part of...

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Apr 23, 2024

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel/AP)

EPA will force polluters to pay for PFAS cleanup

The EPA has singled out two chemicals, PFOS and PFOA, as particularly harmful, stating in a press release Friday that "there is no level of exposure to these contaminants without...

Environment

Apr 19, 2024

New federal PFAS rules to protect health will cost Mass. communities millions

About 181 water systems in Massachusetts will be affected by new EPA limits on PFAS in drinking water. About 95 water systems in the state will now have to address...

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Apr 19, 2024

Barry Cadden, center, enters court in Livingston County, Mich., Thursday, April 18, 2024. Cadden operated New England Compounding Center, a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy, which caused a national meningitis outbreak in 2012. On Thursday, the involuntary manslaughter sentencing for Cadden was suddenly postponed when lawyers looked up and saw a different judge on the bench. (Ed White/AP)

Former Mass. lab chief sentencing for meningitis deaths postponed, extending grief of victims' families

A Michigan judge suddenly postponed the sentencing Barry Cadden, man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states on Thursday, dismaying people who were poised to...

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Apr 18, 2024

Michael Kruzich holds a photo of his late mother Donna during an interview in Lansing, Mich. Donna Kruzich was one of dozens of people in the U.S. who died after being injected with tainted steroids made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. (Mike Householder/AP)

Former Mass. lab chief faces sentencing 12 years after fatal meningitis outbreak

Barry Cadden, the former head of New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted...

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Apr 18, 2024

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, a Steward Health Care family hospital in Brighton, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

'Increasingly urgent': Mass. ratchets up preparation for possible Steward closures

Next week, Gov. Maura Healey's administration will kick off a series of regional meetings with hospitals and community health centers in areas where Steward operates to discuss how to help...

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Apr 11, 2024

Boston Marathon medical coordinator Chris Troyanos looks along the route in Wellesley. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Boston Marathon medical coordinator to retire after almost 50 years working the race

Chris Troyanos has helped race medicine evolve, from how runners are treated for heat stroke to 'massive' planning with hospitals and health officials.

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06:23Apr 11, 2024

How the EPA's new PFAS rules differ from Mass.'s current 'forever chemical' regulations

The federal government has announced new regulations for PFAS. The so-called "forever chemicals" are used in products like food packaging, cookware and clothing but have leeched into water supplies. Massachusetts...

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Apr 10, 2024

Massachusetts drinking water passed state and federal standards for PFAS contamination. (Jim Cole/AP)

EPA sets first national limits on PFAS in drinking water

The new Environmental Protection Agency regulations limit the two most common PFAS chemicals — PFOA and PFOS — to four parts per trillion in drinking water, close to the level...

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Apr 10, 2024