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“The only word I can come up with is gobsmacked,” said Wendy Thomas, recalling her reaction when she opened the lab report after getting her blood tested for PFAS. “Numb. Raw.”

A roundup of news from the Seacoast health care community.

PFAS have been linked to a long and growing list of health concerns. Scientists are beginning to better understand how these chemicals affect so many different organs and systems in the body.

PFAS chemicals are in our water, in our food, in our air and on our skin. And they are linked to a long and growing list of medical concerns. WBUR spoke with scientists about what changes they’ve made in their own lives and what they recommend others do to avoid PFAS.

Use of a remote electrical neuromodulation device every other day helped patients significantly reduce their number of migraine days compared with a placebo device, in new research.

In an “internal” message sent out to thousands of employees last month, Dartmouth Health declared belt-tightening measures were a must as it tries to close a $120 million budget gap by the end of September.In other words, most workers shouldn’t expect...

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but ...

Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023.

The FDAs vaccine advisers lent support to the agencys plan to try to simplify future COVID shots, with an aim of having many people get just one dose in the fall.

/PRNewswire/ -- Pulmatrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: PULM), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative inhaled therapies to address serious disease...