In addition to a proposal to file suit against pharmaceutical companies responsible for the nation's opioid epidemic, Gomes wants doctors to pay their dues, too.
The mother of a student at Hayden-McFadden School in New Bedford has hired a lawyer after she says her daughter was stabbed with a hypodermic needle on school grounds.
The claim stems from an incident on August 22, when Michelle Farland's six-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mother another child had poked her in the hand with a needle allegedly found on the playground earlier t
Update: Police say a doctor was shot inside a prestigious Boston hospital before the gunman killed himself.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans says the physician was shot twice and suffered life-threatening injuries.
Evans says police were on the scene at Brigham and Women's Hospital within seconds after getting the first calls at about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Officers conducting a room-by-room se
Waiting to be seen by my doctor, I was sitting elbow to elbow in a packed and tiny doctor's office when the gentleman across from me started his narration with another elderly patient-in-waiting about his recent colonoscopy. I had the sudden urge to chuckle but I held it in...
With the cold weather usually comes an increased chance that you may come down with the flu.
Flu cases here on the Southcoast have seen a slight increase this season, and one Southcoast doctor says there are only a few good ways to combat the virus...
State Senator Mark Montigny of New Bedford testified Friday before officials of the Mass. Department of Public Health, urging the Department to maintain a strict ban on gifts and lavish meals from pharmaceutical companies to Mass. doctors.