With its Amherst campus filled with students who just returned from Thanksgiving break, University of Massachusetts officials on Tuesday said they are treating two cases of meningitis as an outbreak.
A recall on the Caribeña brand of Maradol papayas from Mexico has been linked to a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 47 people in 12 states, including Massachusetts.
One person is dead and a dozen others were sickened from listeria linked to bagged salad packaged by the Dole processing facility in Springfield, Ohio.
President Barack Obama says helping contain the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a U.S. national security priority but it's going to be a long and difficult task.
A former employee of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that made steroid injections blamed for the deaths of 64 people has been arrested at a Boston airport.
Federal authorities say Glenn Adam Chin was arrested Thursday at Logan International Airport as he was about to board a flight for Hong Kong...