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Dr. Janette Nesheiwat withdrew her nomination for Surgeon General after questions about her credentials. Dr. Casey Means has a medical degree from Stanford and a best-selling book on metabolic health.

Lawmakers face the challenge of addressing the potential loss of $16B in federal funding in next year’s Mass. budget, which may require significant Legislative action.

It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February. Meanwhile, it's the mildest COVID winter since the pandemic began.

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly electronics and save money on bills, consumer and environmental groups said.

The CDC has lost thousands of workers since January. At a conference celebrating the work of the agency's "disease detectives," current and former staff grappled with uncertainty about the future.

Portsmouth-based Iron Mountain secured a $142 million contact with the U.S. Treasury less than three months after Elon Musk targeted the company’s operations as antiquated.

Most adult male baboons are aggressive and live apart from females, other than when mating. But not the Kinda baboon according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A few theories explain why male Kindas seek out and have long-term relationships with females.

Rohit Chopra had led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2021. Consumer groups praised his leadership, while Republicans have frequently attacked the agency.

Tariffs are driving prices up on lots of things Americans buy. Martha Gimbel of Yale's Budget Lab takes an imaginary walk through a big box store to examine how much more consumers will have to pay.

Police are experimenting with various methods to determine whether drivers are under the influence of marijuana, but unlike alcohol, a number of factors make that difficult to know with certainty.