Chris Serres

More than 50 Harvard medical students and faculty assembled Friday morning to protest an event with the president of the American Medical

A coalition of regulators and Boston pro sports teams will develop a curriculum about the perils of sports betting.

Amid growing alarm over the spread of illegal youth sports betting, the Massachusetts attorney general's office is preparing to launch a statewide initiative to educate students across the state about the perils of gambling and its risks to public health.

Each year, hundreds of people addicted to drugs and alcohol show up at Massachusetts hospitals suffering agonizing withdrawal symptoms such as violent shaking and vomiting.

As police dressed in riot gear removed protesters from an occupied academic building at Columbia University in New York City Tuesday night, students demonstrating on campuses at Boston-area colleges remained in place at their encampments protesting Israel’s military action in Gaza.

Protest organizers said about 10 participants had been arrested.

I n a sign that a criminal probe into Steward Health Care has picked up steam, former US House Speaker John Boehner appeared Thursday before a

Boehner, a sitting member of the private, for-profit health care company’s board of directors, is the latest person to testify in a sprawling criminal investigation.

The move marks an escalation in the sprawling federal criminal probe into the national health care chain.