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Same S***, Different Day
Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard about the outbreak of cyclosporiasis currently running rampant through the U.S., causing a spate of gastrointestinal illness across the nation. The FDA thought they had found the source after Taylor Farms lettuce tested positive for the parasite. Unfortunately for wastewater management employees everywhere, they were sadly mistaken.
Get to Know Your Candidates: The Race for the Senate
To help voters decide who to support in the upcoming election for Massachusetts’s second U.S. Senate seat, we reached out to all seven of the candidates who are running. The questions we asked them and the answers we received are below.
40 Years of Strides: How Community Action Continues to Shape LGBTQIA+ Health
On May 31, 2026, Strides for Action will mark its 40th anniversary on the Boston Common, tracing its roots back to the very first AIDS Walk Boston held on that same date in 1986. Forty years later, the spirit of that original movement endures: grounded in urgency, sustained by compassion, and driven by the belief that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Science is Not Perfect. Fight for It Anyway.
If there’s one thing almost anyone can agree on, it’s that science is not perfect. Even so, I am here to invite you to Stand Up for Science tomorrow, March 7th, to make a case for science with all its imperfections.
True Life Shouldn’t Be Scarier than Fiction
As Trump continues to point fingers about who is to blame for the fractured state of our country, when it comes to the dismantling of public health policy, the call is definitely coming from inside the house. In honor of spooky season, click through for some talking points about some of the terrifying ways that RFK Jr. has undermined public health policy.
We fact-checked RFK Jr.’s claims about the supposed autism epidemic
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s April news briefing was meant to be his chance to inform the public about the Centers for Disease Control’s new autism prevalence study. Instead, it was rife with misinformation, fear mongering, and disability-negative views. Despite receiving intense backlash from the community, he has not relented. In fact, the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid have announced a collaborative data platform that will create what can only be described as an autism database. We are fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s claims because one can only understand the danger posed by this autism database after talking about the extent of his misinformation campaign.