Martha Bebinger

The young man in khaki pants with a scarf tied at this neck lay sprawled across the front steps of the South Congregational Church in Springfield.

“Being able to live a long and healthy life shouldn’t depend on your wallet or where you live,” said the foundation's president Dr. Ann Hwang.

There’s no single reason for the slight drop in opioid overdose deaths across most of the U.S. last year. But finding new ways to make Narcan available in public, 24 hours a day, is helping.

A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for Steward Health Care to close two Massachusetts hospitals, while the fate of the company’s other hospitals remains unsettled and Steward runs critically low on cash.

There's a lot of attention to the drug overdose crisis — and for good reason. Fentanyl can kill instantly. It often poisons people who don't realize what they're taking.

I hear a lot of frustration every year from health care advocates whose bills don't pass on Beacon Hill.

A thin, shy 24-year-old arrived on time, excited for his weekly appointment at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center.

Overdose deaths among people using drugs like cocaine and meth have risen over the past handful of years, and there aren't many treatments for stimulant addiction.

When patients at Boston Medical Center couldn’t pay their utility bills, the hospital launched a solar-powered program to help cover their energy costs and support health needs.

Boston area universities, hospital systems and nonprofits are using their combined purchasing power to help build and run a solar farm in Texas and a wind farm in North Dakota. They expect their investments to produce enough renewable energy to power roughly 130,000 homes a year.