Mass. Dept. of Public Health

According to Southcoast Health, the state is prioritizing distributing their vaccine supply to their state-controlled mass vaccination sites, rather than hospitals and health systems.

This week on the Saturday Morning show, we were discussing the recent shutdown of an area restaurant after several cases of salmonella originated there. That also led to several listeners calling in with their own restaurant "horror stories...

The Mass. Department of Public Health has identified a cluster of salmonella cases in New Bedford. Several cases of salmonella or food poisoning have been linked to food recently served at the Churrascaria Aveirense restaurant at 175 Sawyer Street in New Bedford...

State health officials say they are urging hospitals in Massachusetts to err on the side of caution when it comes to reporting any patients who could possibly have been exposed to Ebola. Dr. Albert DeMaria, an infectious disease specialist for the Department of Public Health, told a press briefing Friday that several suspicious cases were investigated in the state in recent months, but Ebola was q

A new audit has found that the vast majority of public schools in Massachusetts are complying with state regulations regarding school nutrition, physical education and measuring student body mass index. Monday's report from state Auditor Suzanne Bump's office, however, found some schools failed to report the body mass information to the state Department of Public Health or adopt policies for admin

A Springfield hospital says federal and state health officials have confirmed eight cases of an unusual respiratory virus that has been affecting children around the country. Baystate Children's Hospital said in a statement that eight specimens tested positive for enterovirus D68...

Mass in Motion New Bedford's financial future is secure for at least another three years. The motivational healthy lifestyle program has been awarded another round of funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which will provide $50,000 a year to the program for three years...

State health officials have received 100 applications from groups seeking licenses to open marijuana dispensaries. Only applicants who were approved during an initial review phase were eligible to apply for the licenses during the second and final phase. ...

Mayor Jon Mitchell says he wants groups seeking to open a medical marijuana facility to come in with business plans and other information, like other companies do when eyeing New Bedford.

The state health department says five patients in Massachusetts may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease from the same specialized surgical instrument used on a patient in New Hampshire.       The Massachusetts Department of Health said Thursday that the five patients had procedures this summer at Cape Cod Hospital. The...