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Southcoast Health is encouraging area residents to defend themselves against measles.

The doctor accused of using cash, drugs, and alcohol to coerce a teenage boy into having sex with him has been released on bail.

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.

A Dartmouth man is recovering after crashing his snowmobile in New Hampshire Monday.

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...

When you get in a crash, you hope there is a limited audience, but this crash was caught on camera for all to see.

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.