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For the past 10 years, Mark Albers has studied how existing medications could be repurposed to treat Alzheimer's, a disease that's expected to double in prevalence by 2060 and has no cure.

Hundreds of people clad in yellow — a color symbolizing pedestrian and bike safety — gathered Sunday afternoon to remember Louisa Gag, a bike-share

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The Broad Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, and Maine's Jackson Laboratory announced a collaboration Tuesday to develop gene therapies for people with rare diseases and to make the life-saving therapies cheaper and more accessible to patients.

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The body of a swimmer who went missing at a quarry in Milford over the weekend has been recovered, State Police said Sunday.

“If those are facts, I don't think he should have ever cleared vetting,” Tom Homan said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.

Three people were stabbed at a hotel in Somerset on Saturday night, police said.

As much of the United States, including Massachusetts, remains on alert amid ongoing outbreaks of two foodborne illnesses , experts say it's critical