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Reusable grocery bags can spread norovirus, study finds

The rise of reusable grocery bags has raised concerns about the possibility of lurking germs from raw foods that then contaminate other item ...

My weight loss before and after

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Critics circulate graphic video and petition to halt shock therapy at Rotenberg school

Critics of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton have stepped up their campaign to stop the school’s controversial skin-shock the ...

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New look at mood disorder

Child psychiatrists are debating whether a 40-fold increase within a decade in bipolar diagnoses in children is genuine or the result of routine misdiagnoses.

What is bipolar disorder? | Discuss Your thoughts?

Regulators approve rules to define unsafe drivers

State health regulators defined when a person is too cognitively or functionally impaired to drive safely, and said age and illness are not sole factors.

Rules aim to define an unsafe driver

Scariest question for mom: What’s for dinner?

(Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)

Battling her 5-year-old over dinner options is a strain, says Debbie Siegel, with 11-month-old Sophie, in Newton.

Recipes for eating healthy | Healthy Mother's Day recipes

2 Mass. plans vie for savings on health care

Mass. Senate leaders’ will call for less-aggressive spending limits on the health care industry than the House proposed, and fewer controls on high-priced hospitals and doctors.

Thanks to a growing array of gadgets and apps, we can track all sorts of information about ourselves during our daily lives. So what can the "quantified self" movement really teach us about ourselves?

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A rampant prescription

A Boston Globe investigation found that roughly 185,000 US nursing home residents received antipsychotic drugs in 2010 contrary to government recommendations.

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